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British woman raped before being killed for 'honour' in Pakistan

Ex-husband, father charged with Shahid's murder in Pakistan

Arsalan Altaf/news Desk September 03, 2016

British pakistani Samia Shahid was raped before her death according to the police. PHOTO: FILE

The British-Pakistani woman who was killed in Pakistan was raped before her death, the officer in charge of the investigation revealed.

Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, was found dead in Pandori village in the house of her first husband Shakeel Ahmed on July 20. The family claimed she died a natural death.

Ex-husband, father charged with Shahid's murder in Pakistan

Police charged Shahid's ex-husband and father with her murder on Saturday.

"We have completed our investigation and concluded that her ex-husband Muhammad Shakeel and father Muhammad Shahid were involved in her killing," said Abubakar Buksh, deputy inspector general of police in the region.

"Her ex-husband has also been charged with raping her," he told AFP.

According to Shahid's second husband Kazam, his wife had angered her parents by converting to Shia Islam, his sect, before their wedding.

Probe team says father, ex-husband guilty in British woman's murder

SHO arrested for showing negligence

A station house officer (SHO) of Jhelum police has also been arrested for showing negligence in handling the British-Pakistani woman's murder on July 20.

A high-level team constituted by the Punjab government and headed by DIG Abubakar Khuda Bakhsh is investigating the case.

The investigation team on Friday, September 2nd ordered arrest of Mangla SHO, Inspector Aqeel Abbas, for showing negligence in the case. Officials at Mangla Police Station confirmed that Abbas had been arrested.

Ex-husband confesses to killing Samia Shahid for honour

Shahid's father has denied the charges, claiming his daughter died of natural causes.

Hundreds of women are murdered by relatives in the conservative Muslim nation each year on the pretext of defending what is seen as family honour.

Rights groups and politicians have for years called for tougher laws to tackle perpetrators of violence against women in Pakistan.

COMMENTS (19)

Pramod | 8 years ago | Reply @Haris: Really?!! honor killing is really unislamic!! What will you do if honor killing is Islamic?

Black Hawk | 8 years ago | Reply @Haris: The culture of female abuse & honor killing in Pakistan did not come to from India because it is very much prevalent all across the Islamic world. In quite a few Islamic countries a women is punished if she even steps out of the house without a male family member. Did they also import this culture from India? In India generally there's a lot more gender equality than Pakistan & honor killing is mostly unheard of except in northern state of Haryana and occasionally in UP or Punjab. It's virtually non existent in southern, western or eastern India. So get your facts correct & stop blaming India for all the ills in your society.

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SaneVoice | 8 years ago | Reply She was dual national Pakistani. Not surprised at media portraying her as BRITISH in all headlines, when such "BRITISH" commit crimes then they are only MUSLIMS and PAKISTANI's..........Just goes to show what a "balanced" role media is playing.......NOT!

raf | 8 years ago | Reply @Rehmat Ali: Yes, whether a Pakistani national or a Brit, all deserve justice--but clearly the British government values the life of their people much more than the Pakistani government. Perhaps the frustration should be shifted towards the Pakistani government, Pakistani citizens & the mentality of Pakistani society that all lives hold value; neither of the aforementioned care when a woman is murdered, raped, violated--instead they demonize her. This story gets more and more disgusting.

Marzia | 8 years ago | Reply Culture of subcontinent before partition which is still in vogue in various places across the border from both sides. you are in denial but it won't change the reality.@Ghazal:

Khilari | 8 years ago | Reply Who is accepting it as routine? Are you reading the denouncement of such a heinous crime by various Pakistanis with tinted glasses?@IndianDude:

ZAk | 8 years ago | Reply Please do not publish pictures of dead again and again on media.

IndianDude | 8 years ago | Reply The ex-husband not not only raped and murdered his ex-wife but also his first-cousin!!! Also the crime was committed to save honor because a sunni girl had divorced her first-cousin-ex-husband and had eloped and married a shia muslim!! This crime is gruesome on so many level that only a pakistani can even accept it as routine.

Neptune | 8 years ago | Reply @Haris: Are u suggesting that u Guys, who are citizens of the so called land of the pure, adopt from impure india, this practice of killing converts to another faith in the name of honour??

Khwaja | 8 years ago | Reply If conversion caused these two idiots problems, then let me say that i have just converted, and i invite them to come and deal with me. Id love to see what happens then to them. These are perverts, use religion to rape. What a cause and what an action ! Shame on these communities who endirse such acts of violence. What has happened to u?

Ghazal | 8 years ago | Reply @Haris: What came from India ? Women, honour , or killing. Who brought them? Mohajirs? It is least in their society. You sick mind don't blame everything else, look at a mirror you will get answer. If men started to get killed in Pakistan for honour , Pakistan will be gender less society

IceSoul | 8 years ago | Reply @Umair: Is it incorrect? If not what is the problem?

Amir | 8 years ago | Reply The only reason this case got highlighted an resolved is because it was 'pushed' by a foreign government to get to the bottom of this. If she was just a Pakistani woman, they case was open and shut as suicide.

Really fed up | 8 years ago | Reply The ordeal ,poor woman had to undergo before being killed. Her family actually has no honor, least of all her first husband. He's an animal and not even a human being. Their wrong interpretation of religion stooped them so low.

Umair | 8 years ago | Reply 'Hundreds of women are murdered by relatives in the conservative Muslim nation each year...' this para seems as if it has been copied from an Indian or other country's newspaper. Usually such sentences are used in Indian & western newspapers, while referring to Pakistan.

Adnan | 8 years ago | Reply Just mind-boggling cruelty. Barbarians still walk this planet !!

Rehmat Ali | 8 years ago | Reply Much highlighted this murder! Because she was British national. What about rest of Pakistanis poor and underage raped and killed every day in Pakistan.Life is precious of whoever British or Pakistani !

Ahad | 8 years ago | Reply Honor ???

Haris | 8 years ago | Reply As a Pakistani, I am ashamed, sad and angry. Honor Killing is totally unIslamic, It's cultural disease came from india upon Indo-Pak partition and still it need treatment. Treatment of education and awareness of islamic teachings.

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