
Waheeda was found dead on May 19 at her brother Khalid’s house in University Town and the police suspect she was murdered. On July 24, an inquiry committee concluded she did not commit suicide and died of suffocation instead.

Zahida, mother of the deceased, registered an FIR accusing her husband Darya Khan, son Khalid, daughter-in-law Fauzia and Waheeda’s husband Ali Yamin of murdering her daughter.
After Waheeda’s father approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan, it further ordered the inclusion of 12 police officers to the same FIR. On September 29, Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan dismissed the bail petition of Khalid. However, his wife Fauzia was granted bail on two sureties worth Rs600,000 each.
The Supreme Court quashed one FIR registered against the 12 officials on October 28 with the observation that the sections under which one of the FIRs was filed pertained to bailable offences and were also not relevant to the case.
The officials indicted include former IGPs of Islamabad and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Bin Yamin and Ihsan Ghani, respectively, Peshawar SSP Operations Imran Shahid, Cantt SP Faisal Kamran, Town ASP Umer Farooq, Town SHO Sardar Hussain, Town Investigation Officer Rizwanullah, Islamabad SSP Yasin Farooq, Saddar Zone Islamabad SP Jamil Hashmi, Margala DSP Rashid Niazi, Shalimar SHO Sajjad Haider and SI Rashid Ahmad.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2013.
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