The American blogger and journalist Cynthia D Ritchie has been found unconscious inside her flat in Islamabad. 

Police said Ritchie was shifted to a hospital for medical treatment, further details will be known after the hospital issues her medical report, the police added.

Ritchie had made headlines last year in June when she accused senior PPP leaders, former interior minister Rehman Malik of raping her and had alleged that ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani had "physically manhandled" her a couple of years ago.

Both Malik and Gillani had rubbished her allegations and said that it was a plot to malign the PPP.

The US blogger Cynthia D Ritchie is working on different film projects during her stay in Pakistan on an extended visa.