ISLAMABAD: Jansher Khan, the Pakistani squash legend, has been charged with assault and threatening to kill a woman and her family with an unlicensed shotgun, along with using force to drive the victims out of their house.
The victim, Rukhsana, a resident of Peshawar, alleged that Khan had injured her and harassed her family. She said, “Six armed men thrashed me and also tore my clothes.
It was only the rapid entry of the police that made the arrest of the three accomplices possible, while the other three and Khan himself managed to flee.”
Jansher Khan has denied the allegations saying, “It is a low way of getting cheap popularity. I am in Islamabad right now, what to talk of assaulting someone in Peshawar. Moreover, no one from my family or my legal adviser has contacted me so far.”
The police have registered a case against the pathan under Sections 354A, 448,188, 506, 148 and 149, which carry the death sentence and life imprisonment.
The inside story is, however, that Rukhsana’s brother-in-law, Abdul Shakoor had taken a loan of Rs10 lakh from Khan on condition that the former would also pay mark-up equal to that of banks. He said that he had paid Rs 17 lakh to Khan but he was still demanding Rs 40 lakh.
