One of the perpetrators of a murder that shocked Italy, a woman convicted of killing her 18-year-old daughter when she refused a forced marriage, was detained in her native Pakistan after years on the run, an official source stated this Saturday.
Nazia Shaheen was detained in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir “and was presented before a court in Islamabad last Friday“said a member of the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), who requested anonymity.
Saman Abbas disappeared from his parents’ home in Novellara in April 2021,
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The extradition process has already begun, after which she will be sent to Italy following the procedure
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Although the father was found in Pakistan and later extradited to Italy in September 2023the mother was missing in her native country.
“The extradition process has already started, after which she will be sent to Italy following the procedure,” said the Pakistani investigation agency official.
In a case that shocked Italian society, Saman Abbas disappeared from his parents’ house in Novellara in April 2021, when he returned to collect his documentation after spending several months in housing protected by social services.
The young woman had reported that her parents wanted to marry her against her will to a cousin of hers, older than her. The Italian prosecutor’s office accused her parents of handing her over to her uncle, Danish Hasnain, so that he could murder her and hide her body. Hasnain was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in the murder.
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Arranged marriages are common in conservative Pakistan, where hundreds of women are murdered each year in so-called ‘honor crimes’ for opposing these unions.
EFE
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