Actress Uzma Khan appeals for justice as police fails to arrest key accused

LAHORE: Actress Uzma Khan has sought help from Prime Minister Imran Khan IGP Punjab as police have failed to arrest the key accused involved in the incident despite registration of FIR.

In a new video message posted on her Twitter account on Friday evening, Uzma denied reports that she had reached a “compromise” with those involved in the violence and that she had moved to Dubai.

She said she was in Lahore and had requested IG Punjab to meet her, adding that some of the IG’s subordinates were suggesting that she enter into a compromise while there were others who were supporting her.

The actor said she will follow the IG’s advice, whether it is pursuing the case or reaching a settlement.

She said people were advising her to make a “deal” with the assailants, saying her life was in danger. “But I have already died after what they have done to me … they have defamed me before the whole world,” she said.

She added that police officers were “not cooperating” with her and neither were they arresting the three women.

“My life is in danger,” she said, requesting assistance from Prime Minister Imran Khan and Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari.

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Videos show violence, abuse

Earlier, video clips showing torture carried out on the actress and her sister allegedly by the daughters of a property tycoon.

A large number of people had jumped into a heated discussion after the release on social media of footage in which a couple of women accompanied by men apparently in security guards’ uniforms are seen to be storming a house and confronting actress Uzma Khan and her sister.

The other clips showed the attacking women abusing Uzma and her sister Huma, slapping and hurling life threats at them for having “relations with Usman”. The pictures also showed shattered glass and damaged articles in the house.

On Wednesday, the actress filed an application with the Lahore police seeking action against the attacking women and the armed men. In her application filed with the Defence C police station, Uzma Khan nominated Malik Riaz’s daughters Amina Usman Malik (the wife of Usman Malik), Pashmina Malik and Ambar Malik besides 15 armed men (private guards of these women) and sought criminal case against them.