Overview
- Provincial authorities approved a high-level JIT led by Khyyam Hassan with a five-day reporting deadline and later added Assistant Inspector General Sonia Shamroz to the team.
- Abbottabad’s DPO requested the FIA to examine financial records, suspicious transactions, travel histories and prior money-laundering inquiries for Rida Jadoon, Abdul Waheed and Nadeem.
- Police arrested Rida Jadoon, Nadeem and Pervaiz, nominated Abdul Waheed, and continue to search for the absconding suspect, Shamraiz.
- Two vehicles used in the crime were seized and an Anti-Terrorism Court granted a three-day physical remand for the arrested suspects.
- Officials say a post-mortem found Dr Warda was strangled within about an hour of her abduction, and investigators have sealed five shops linked to her husband as wider financial checks proceed.