By Raza Ruman
Screenwriter Khalilur Rehman Qamar on Monday appeared before media along with police and narrated his story of honey trapping.
Qamar was kidnapped, tortured, and looted in Lahore on July 15 by a young woman and her a complices in Bahria Town.
According to the FIR registered at the Sundar Police Station in Lahore, Qamar received a phone call from an unknown number close to midnight. The caller, who identified herself as Amna Urooj, claimed to be a fan of Qamar and expressed a desire to collaborate with him on a TV drama.
آج ان کی یہ خواہش بھی پوری ہو گئی۔ یہ خبر بنے اور ساری دنیا نے اس خبر کو پڑھا۔
— Sanam Jamali🇵🇰 (@sana_J2) July 21, 2024
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میں نے کبھی خلیل قمر کا ڈرامہ نہیں دیکھا۔ لوگ کہتے ہیں کہ وہ بہت اچھا سکرپٹ لکھتا ہے۔ میں نے تو صرف اس کی ایف آئی آر والا سکرپٹ پڑھا ہے اور یہ تو بہت ہی بونگا ہے۔ ایسے سکرپٹ لکھنے والے کے ڈرامے کون دیکھتا ہے؟
— Murtaza Solangi (@murtazasolangi) July 22, 2024
Mr Qamar, known for his popular dramas like Meray Paas Tum Ho and Pyarey Afzal, agreed to meet her. He reached the given location at approximately 4:40am on July 15 where Urooj welcomed him into her house. However, soon after he sat down, there was a knock on the door, and around seven armed men entered the room. The men conducted a body search, seizing Rs60,000, an iPhone 11, an ATM card, and Qamar’s national identity card.
According to the FIR, Urooj and the abductors withdrew over Rs250,000 from a separate bank account of him. The kidnappers allegedly told him that they had orders to kill him, demanding a ransom of Rs10 million.
Qamar explained reasons to meet Urooj at such at 4.40am citing medical advice to avoid daytime outings due to health issues.
“I am sick and my doctor has strictly told me to not go out in the daytime for five years,” he disclosed
“When there’s no objection to me meeting men at night, then why should there be an objection to me agreeing to see this woman at the break of dawn? Because this happened at 4:40am, I had not agreed to go at night when I got the call. For the past 15 days, she was pestering me to see her.”
Urooj, in her statement to the police, claimed that she and Qamar had been exchanging text messages and pictures for a week.
Qamar however denied this, stating that Urooj wanted to be in his play and that he no longer had a record of the messages. “The girls in my field, the kind of clothes they wear and the way they talk, I’ve been seeing that for the past 27 years now. It’s nothing new to me,” he said, in response to a reporter alleging that the woman did not seem the type to be cast in his plays.
Qamar often makes controversial statements about women.
Interestingly in his 2019 interview of Qamar had said that he mockingly “if women want equality, they should consider kidnapping a man. I spoke to a feminist group about equality. I asked them if they’d ever heard about a gang of men kidnapping a woman. They assured me they have. I asked them why don’t women do the same. If you wish to strive for equality then kidnap men as well. Rob a bus, gang rape a man so that I can understand what you [women] mean by equality,” Qamar had said in the video.
Qamar’s episode was one of the top trends on social media with questioning how come he could choose to meet a woman at her house at 4.40am. “There must be something fishy. One hopes that this riddle is solved sooner,” Nadim Butt says on X.
Another user said Qamar should have admitted before the press that he was honey trapped and none else but he himself is responsible for that. PAK DESTINY
