A Pakistani man suspected of killing his 18-year-old daughter in Italy after she reportedly refused an organized marriage has been arrested and is being questioned by investigators within the capital, Islamabad, a senior police official stated Friday.
Shabbir Abbas was arrested in his village within the japanese Punjab province following a tip-off by Italian authorities and native police, the official Anwar Saeed Kingra informed The Related Press.
His daughter, Saman Abbas, was final seen in April 2021 by neighbors within the neighborhood of 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 her dad and mom, who had reportedly been pressuring her to marry a person she had by no means met, catching a flight to Pakistan.
Amir Shaheen, one other senior Pakistani police investigator, stated the lady'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 lady.
No officers from the company or Pakistan's International Ministry have been instantly out there for remark, and it's unclear if the nation has an extradition treaty with Italy. Authorities say Italian police have been on the lookout for the person after he fled to Pakistan alongside together with his spouse, who has but to be arrested.
Authorities in Italy final week found a physique in a shallow grave in an deserted constructing close to the household residence. Italian media reported that it may take two months to substantiate the id of the stays.
Earlier than her disappearance, the lady informed her boyfriend in Italy, who can also be of Pakistani origin, that her dad and mom needed to marry her off to an older man of their homeland however that she was refusing. After going to authorities, the lady was allowed to remain at a shelter however later returned residence, reportedly after her household despatched her textual content messages begging her to come back again, Italian information reviews stated on the time.
Italy has already arrested the uncle of the lady after his extradition from France. Danish Hasnain was detained beneath a European arrest warrant in France, the BBC reported.
Police launched CCTV footage from April 29, 2021, which appeared to point out three suspects strolling with spades, a crowbar and a blue bag, the BBC reported. Investigators on the time stated Abbas's dad and mom and one in every of her cousins fled from Italy after she went lacking.
Organized marriages are the norm amongst many conservative Pakistanis, and a whole bunch of ladies 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.
In 2020, Pakistani authorities arrested two males for allegedly murdering two feminine relations after a video which confirmed them being kissed by a person was posted on-line.
