Karachi: A petition has been filed in a court of Judicial Magistrate East for postmortem of Dr Amir Liaqut Hussain dead body.
The petitioner of the plea said that Dr Amir Liaqut died mysteriously and determining the cause of the death is necessary.
The court after hearing the plea, issued notices to heirs of Dr Amir Liaqut Hussain adding that the heirs either appear before the court or submit their response in the court.
.One of Pakistan’s most prominent and contentious TV hosts, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, had died aged 50 after being found unconscious at home in Karachi.
The anchor was taken to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. A post mortem exam was not carried out as his family not allowed it.
Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain, son Ahmed Aamir led the funeral prayers at Jamia Majid at Abdullah Shah Gazi’s shrine.
A large number of people, including Hussain’s family and friends, attended the prayers.
Aamir Liaquat Hussain switched from televangelism to politics, becoming an MP for Imran Khan’s PTI party.
His career was dogged by controversy – he gave babies to childless couples on TV and was banned for hate speech.
The outspoken anchor’s personal life was public fodder too, often fuelled by his activities on social media.
In the last chapter of his life, he married for a third time but it ended publicly and acrimoniously within months. His 18-year-old bride Dania Shah filed for divorce in May, accusing him of domestic abuse and being a drug addict.
Hussain released a video calling the marriage a “fiasco” and dismissing the allegations as fake news – but he also referred to being depressed by the things said about him on social media after all he had done for Pakistan and vowed to leave the country.
Aamir Liaquat Hussain, who worked for many of Pakistan’s leading media houses over his career, was undoubtedly popular with a section of the population but many others found him highly divisive.
An eloquent speaker and a great showman who guaranteed ratings, his broadcasts were well scripted, and included religious sermons – as well as frequent abuse.
