University of Toronto PhD student detained

Toronto (Rajeev Sharma): The family of Hamza Ahmed Khan, a University of Toronto PhD student and dual Canadian-Pakistani citizen, has raised urgent concerns following his arrest by Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA). Ahmed Khan, who was in Pakistan to conduct research for his dissertation on the politics of democracy promotion, went missing on Thursday, February 19, 2026, while traveling via a ride-hailing service in Lahore. His family only discovered his whereabouts on Sunday after being informed by a local journalist that he was being held in a Lahore district jail. According to the NCCIA, Ahmed Khan was taken…