A Pakistani court has indicted eight suspects, including the grandson of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, in a gang rape of two foreign women, an official said on Wednesday (November 11, 2026).
The victim women said that they met Raza Dar in Singapore in 2025 and invited him to invest money with them in the business of crypto currency, according to the police report. Police said the women were forced to transfer $19,500.
“Lahore’s Additional District & Sessions Judge (AD&SJ) Rafaqat Ali Gondal on Tuesday (November 10) framed charges against the suspects who pleaded not guilty,” a court official said and added the judge directed the prosecution to present its witnesses on December 9 so that the formal trial proceedings could be commenced. Ironically, Punjab police had already given a “clean chit” to Ishaq Dar’s grandson Raza Dar and his four accomplices in this case.
All the suspects, presently in judicial custody, were produced before the trial court for the indictment proceedings. Police not only absolved Dar’s grandson and his four friends of rape charges but charged three other low-paid employees of him of raping the women, as per a police report earlier submitted in the court.
The medical examination confirmed that the foreign women were raped. Both victim women after recording their statements had left for their home countries.
