Controversial playwright Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar hasn’t had the best time of his life in the last week as he was allegedly abducted and robbed in Lahore.
According to an FIR filed at the Sundar Police Station in Lahore, Qamar received a phone call from a woman, identified as Amna Urooj, who expressed interest in collaborating with him on a TV drama.
Qamar met her around 4:40 am at her house, where he was robbed of Rs60,000, an iPhone 11, a Bank Al-Habib ATM card, and his national identity card. The FIR stated that the abductors also withdrew over Rs200,000 from another of Qamar’s bank accounts.
During a press conference on Monday, the writer of “Meray Paas Tum Ho” and “Pyarey Afzal” was questioned about meeting a woman at such an unusual hour. Qamar explained, “I am sick, and my doctor has strictly advised me not to go out during the daytime for five years. Even if he hadn’t said that, we often meet people at night without differentiating between men and women. Since there’s no objection to meeting men at night, why should there be an objection to meeting a woman at dawn? She had been pestering me to see her for the past 15 days.”
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Urooj allegedly told the police that she and Qamar had been texting and sharing photos for a week, according to a reporter’s account. Qamar strongly denied this, stating he had lost track of the texts and that Urooj wanted to be in his show.
Responding to accusations of falling into a honey trap, Qamar criticized women in showbiz, saying, “The girls in my field, the kind of clothes they wear and the way they talk, I’ve been observing that for the past 27 years. It’s nothing new to me.”
