Pakistan arrests man in honor killing of teen daughter who rejected arranged marriage

Saman Abbas, 18, disappeared in late April in northern Italy after refusing to marry an older man she by no means met.

A Pakistani father has been arrested within the suspected honor killing of his 18-year-old daughter in Italy after she refused an organized marriage, police stated Friday.

Shabbir Abbas was taken into custody in his village within the japanese Punjab province final week after a tip-off by Italian authorities and native police, senior police official Anwar Saeed Kingra stated.

The suspect’s daughter, Saman Abbas, was final seen alive in late April by neighbors exterior her household’s residence within the farm city of Novellara, close to the town of Reggio Emilia.

A couple of days later, a Milan airport video confirmed Saman’s mother and father, who had reportedly been pressuring her to marry a person she had by no means met, catching a flight to Pakistan.

Abbas’ arrest comes simply days after a physique was found in a shallow grave in an deserted constructing close to the Pakistani household’s residence.

Shabbar Abbas, the lacking woman’s father, was arrested in his daughter’s homicide in Pakistan however stated in court docket she is alive.

Italian media reported that it may take two months to verify the id of the stays, however an area court docket stated Thursday it was “extremely possible” that the human stays belonged to the lacking teen.

Throughout an extradition listening to Thursday, Abbas insisted that his daughter is alive, the Italian information company ANSA reported. He beforehand claimed that she had traveled to Belgium.

Amir Shaheen, one other senior Pakistani police investigator, stated that Saman’s father was being sought by Italian police on a cost of killing his daughter.

He refused to share any additional particulars, saying the suspect was within the custody of the nation’s Federal Investigation Company, which was approached by Interpol to hunt the arrest and extradition of the person to Italy in reference to the homicide of the girl.

Earlier than her disappearance, the 18-year-old woman informed her boyfriend in Italy, who can be of Pakistani descent, that her mother and father wished to marry her off to an older man of their homeland however that she was refusing.

After going to authorities, Saman was allowed to remain at a shelter beneath the safety of the state however later returned residence, reportedly after her household despatched her textual content messages begging her to come back again, Italian information experiences stated on the time.

Prosecutors consider Saman’s mother and father and three different relations took half in her homicide. On April 29, surveillance video caught three of the suspects carrying digging instruments.

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Italy has already arrested Saman’s uncle, Danish Hasnain, who's believed to have strangled her, and two of the teenager’s cousins, Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, following their extraditions from France and Spain.

Prosecutors in Italy suspect Saman’s mother and father, the uncle and the 2 cousins of collaborating in her homicide and the disposal of her physique.

Three of the suspects have been captured on surveillance video on April 29 — the day earlier than police consider Saman was killed — carrying spades, a crowbar and a blue bag.

The following day, Saman was seen on video leaving her home along with her mother and father for the final time.

The woman’s mom, Nazia Shaheen, has not been arrested but and stays a fugitive in Pakistan after being indicted in absentia.

A whole lot of girls are murdered yearly in so-called honor killings carried out by husbands or relations as a punishment for alleged adultery or different illicit sexual conduct.

With Put up wires