Tuesday, 26 July 2016

British beauty therapist 'was murdered in honour killing on trip to Pakistan because she married outside her family'

British beauty therapist: Samia Shahid, 28, who was originally from Bradford, West Yorkshire, died while visiting relatives in her ancestral Punjab village of Pandori on Wednesday

The husband of a British beauty therapist who died in Pakistan has claimed she was the victim of an ‘honour killing’ for marrying a man outside the family.
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.

Slaughtered: Earlier this month social media star and 'Pakistan's Kim Kardashian' Qandeel Baloch (pictured) was strangled to death by her brother in Multan, Punjab, who said he was 'not embarrassed' to have killed her

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'.