Anmol Pinky complains of ‘pressure to give false statements’, disputes official claim on arrest timing

KARACHI: While police on Saturday managed to secure a further six-day remand of Anmol Pinky in two cases, the suspected drug baroness contested the police’s claim that she was arrested on May 12 in Karachi, saying she had actually been picked up 22 days earlier in Lahore and was being pressured to give “false statements involving Banigala” — an Islamabad area known as the residence of former prime minister and incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan. On Saturday, police produced the suspect, Pinky, before various courts for remand. The screengrab shows a police officer trying to cover Pinky’s face with a chador while others hold her in court. In an intense show of resistance and scuffle with policewomen and officials escorting her, Pinky, whose face was covered with a chador, shouted while unmasking her face and alleged that law-enforcement authorities had forced statements from her. “They forced me to give false statements to say that I used to deliver items to a man in Banigala. These people picked me up from Lahore and brought me here 22 days ago,” she shouted while policemen tried to keep her silent and her face covered. Says she was picked up in Lahore 22 days ago; magistrate extends police remand for six days “Hum to doobay hain sanam….in sab ko lai doobay gain [we are drowning my love, and we will drag all of them down with us too]” was her poetic response to a journalist’s question about whether she wanted to share anything with the media. On Saturday, the police brought the suspect before judicial magistrates of three districts, South, Central and Malir, in over 15 cases and sought her custody for further investigations. The judicial magistrate (Central), Abdul Sattar, granted a six-day physical remand of the suspect in a case registered under the Sindh Control of Narcotic Substances Act 2024 at the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) police station last year. The magistrate in his order said that the suspect alleged maltreatment at the hands of police, but no app