RAWALPINDI: Popular Pashto singer Nazia Iqbal has alleged that her brotherhas raped her daughter.
Her brother was arrested on Wednesday after she registered a case againsthim for allegedly raping her two minor daughters.
The singer registered a case against her 19-year-old brother, Iftikhar, inRawat Police Station, Rawalpindi on Tuesday, police said.
In her complaint, the singer alleged that her brother repeatedly raped herdaughters, 12 and 8, while she and her husband were away for concerts.Nazia claimed that she used to ask Iftikhar to stay at her residence inRawalpindi’s Bahria Town to take care of her daughters while she was away.
Instead, he used to rape them and scare them into silence, she said.
The singer further claimed that she caught her brother raping one of herdaughters in her room on Tuesday and then registered the case.
SHO Rawat Police said Nazia’s brother has been arrested and furtherinvestigations are underway. Medical tests of the two girls have beenconducted, he said.
“The medical reports have been sent to the Punjab Forensic Lab in Lahore,”he added.