LAHORE: YouTuber Aun Ali Khosa returned home on Monday, a day before the Lahore High Court was set to hear a petition regarding his alleged abduction.

Advocate Khadija Siddiqui, the lawyer for Khosa’s wife, confirmed to Dawn that the social media content creator arrived home safely.

She alleged that the purpose of abduction was achieved shortly after the incident since the song was deleted from his YouTube channel.

The lawyer said the state should be protector of its citizens, not abductor.

The LHC had on Friday ordered the Lahore CCPO to recover Khosa by Aug 20.

Advocate Siddiqui had told the court that unidentified persons barged into the house of her client and took away the husband of the petitioner.

Khosa, who is famous for creating anti-PML-N content, had recently sung a song, Bill Bill Pakistan, and released its video, criticising the high prices of electricity and extra taxes added to it. He also took on the worthlessness of Pakistani passport and frequent foreign loans that the country had to take.

BAIL: An anti-terrorism court on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to PTI MPA Hafiz Farhat Abbas in connection with a case involving the burning of police vehicles near Jinnah House in the cantonment during the May 9 riots.

Published in Dawn, August 20th, 2024