Pashto drama and stage actor Khushboo Khan was shot dead by two men in Pakistan, according to a report by Geo News citing the country’s police. On Monday, the actor’s body was discovered in crop fields in the Wapda Colony of Nowshera district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Akbarpura police have registered a murder case against the two suspects, identified as Shaukat and Falak Niaz, as nominated by the complainant, who is the brother of the deceased actor, Geo News reported. The police have launched a search operation to apprehend the suspects, one of whom had previously been booked for the alleged murder of another woman in the acting industry.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), the victim’s brother alleged that the suspects killed Khushboo because she refused to comply with their demands to work exclusively at their organized events and not leave the industry. When Khushboo did not agree to their demands, the suspects allegedly lured her to a party at their place and murdered her there, Geo News reported.
Meanwhile, Akhbarpura Station House Officer (SHO) Niaz Muhammad Khan stated that the police suspect Khushboo was brought to the event in question, where both suspects were present, and that she was murdered elsewhere and her body was later dumped in the fields.
According to police findings, the suspects allegedly use houses for such crimes. Nowshera District Police Officer (DPO) Azhar stated that they had gathered evidence and initiated an investigation into the matter, as reported by Geo News. Azhar mentioned that the body was handed over to her family after a post-mortem. He also said that the police would attempt to capture the suspects using modern investigative techniques such as geo-fencing.