Police are treating both incidents as targeted attacks and are investigating possible links between them.
Major (retd) Adil Raja. SCREEN CAPTURE
London’s Counter Terrorism Police (CTP) are investigating the attacks on YouTubers Adil Raja and Shahzad Akbar in Chesham and Cambridge, which are believed to be “coordinated attacks”.
On December 24, 2025, two men dressed in dark clothing broke into Adil Raja’s home in Chesham. The property was empty at the time and police are treating the incident as a target.
Shahzad Akbar, former accountability chief in Imran Khan’s government, was attacked twice. On December 24, 2025, he was attacked at his home in Cambridge and suffered fractures to his nose and jaw. A second attack occurred on December 31, when two men broke a window and tried to set fire to her house.
Police are treating both incidents as targeted attacks and are investigating possible links between them. The investigation into the first attack on Akbar, which took place at around 8:08 a.m. on December 24, was later handed over to CTP London due to the targeted nature of the attack.
No arrests have been made so far and police have said there is no major threat to the public. Officers are providing safety advice to victims as investigations continue.
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Earlier, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad gave double life sentences to YouTuber Adil Raja, former army officer Syed Akbar Hussain and journalists Wajahat Saeed Khan, Sabir Shakir, Moeed Pirzada, Shaheen Sehbai and Haider Mehdi.
The sentences were announced by ATC judge Tahir Abbas Sipra in cases related to “digital terrorism” against state institutions on May 9, 2023.
The prosecution, represented by Raja Naveed Hussain Kiani, presented 24 witnesses before the court. At the request of the prosecution, the trial concluded in the absence of the accused, who were represented by the court-appointed lawyer, Advocate Gulfam Ashraf Goraya.
According to the court orders, each accused was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment under section 121 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), which refers to waging, attempting to wage war or inciting to wage war against Pakistan. Another rigorous life sentence was ordered under Article 120-B of the PPC for conspiracy to commit a crime.
Apart from the life sentence, the court awarded each convict an additional 35 years of rigorous imprisonment on five counts, along with a total fine of Rs 1.5 million.
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These include 10-year sentences under Section 121-A of the PPC for conspiracy to commit crimes, punishable by Section 121, and Section 131 of the PPC for inciting a mutiny or attempting to seduce a soldier, sailor or airman from leaving his service.
Under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 1997, they were further sentenced to three separate rigorous imprisonment terms of five years: Section 11-W for printing, publishing or disseminating material to incite hatred or providing protection to any person convicted of a terrorist act, Section 21 (i) for incitement to crime and Section 7 (i) for acts of terrorism.
The court ordered that all sentences be carried out at the same time. Although the trial was concluded in absentia, those convicted retain the right to appeal to the Islamabad High Court within seven days. All rulings remain subject to final confirmation by the High Court.
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Furthermore, the court extended the benefit of Article 382-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows a period of detention to be considered when issuing a prison sentence.
The relevant SHOs have been ordered to arrest the convicts, currently considered absconders.
