Overview
- Police found Hina Javed’s body tied to a shower in her home bathroom and arrested her husband, Faisal Asghar, and a domestic worker, Zeeshan, who are on a three-day physical remand.
- The post-mortem by Dr Maria Khalid recorded a fractured neck bone, injury marks on ribs and hip, and blood in the pericardium and heart, but doctors did not immediately determine a definitive cause of death pending lab work.
- Investigators told a magistrate they recovered a rope and a wire allegedly used in the incident and collected DNA and other forensic samples that have been sent to laboratories for analysis.
- Police say Zeeshan has given multiple, differing statements to investigators, including a reported confession to strangling Hina and admissions of theft from the household, and authorities are seeking to corroborate those claims with physical evidence.
- A high-level Rawalpindi investigation team led by SSP Investigation Saifullah is probing possible staging of the scene, motive questions and inconsistent accounts, and parliamentary leaders and the law minister have requested committee oversight as forensic results are awaited.