Samia Shahid, 28, who was originally from Bradford, West Yorkshire, died while visiting relatives in her ancestral Punjab village of Pandori on Wednesday.
She was buried in a village graveyard following an immediate post-mortem in which local police claimed to have found no visible injuries or signs of violence on her body.
ut her local Labour MP Naz Shah has now asked that her body is exhumed and an independent autopsy is carried out, reported journalists Helen Pidd and Jon Boone in The Guardian.
Ms Shahid’s second husband Syed Mukhtar Kazam, who lived with her in Dubai, claimed he was told she had suffered a heart attack - while another relative believes she had an asthma attack.
But Mr Kazam, who married her at Leeds Town Hall in September 2014, fears she was killed by her family because they allegedly refused to accept their marriage partly due to him being an ‘outsider’.
He told the Guardian: ‘I am sure my wife is killed by the family. She was healthy. And she had no disease. I believe she was killed because her parents were not happy with our marriage.’
But Ms Shahid’s father said Mr Kazam’s claims were ‘lies and allegations’ against him, adding that his daughter 'had come to Pakistan on her own and was not under any pressure from her family'.
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