Samia Shahid Case: First husband admits to honor killing

Muhammad Shahid had denied the charge and said his daughter died of natural causes.

He said police are also investigating the role of Samia’s parents for abetment to murder.

The man named Mohammad Shakeel, Samia Shahid’s ex-husband, confessed to the police that he strangled Mrs Shahid to death with her own dupatta.

The father and first husband of a British-Pakistani woman suspected to have been the victim of a so-called honor killing in Pakistan have appeared in court.

The husband of a British woman who was killed in Pakistan has called for the United Kingdom and Pakistani governments to ensure his wife received justice, as he sought to keep the spotlight on so-called “honour” killings.

“Samia’s mother phoned her on July 11 and asked her to come to Pakistan to see her ailing father”.

The couple married in Leeds in 2014 after Ms Shahid left her first husband, a cousin from Pakistan, to be with him despite her family’s disapproval. “On July 20, my wife’s phone was switched off and on contacting Mobeen, her cousin, he told me that Samia had suffered a heart attack and died”, Kazim said.

In a letter written to Sharif, she had asserted, “Should this be [an honour killing] case then we must ensure justice is done for Samia and we must ensure this never happens again”.

She had been back to Bradford twice in the past year to convince her parents to accept her marriage, the British MP continued in her letter.

Ms Shahid’s current husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazam, raised the alarm after her death and a forensic examination later concluded that she had been strangled.

She was buried after post-mortem and the samples from her body were sent to a forensics lab in Lahore.