After three times on the run from Italy, a person allegedly confessed to killing her teenage daughter.
Nazia Shaheen received a life sentence in absentia from an Italian prosecutor next December for the 2021 murder of Saman Abbas, 18, in absentia.
Shaheen and her father, Shabbar Abbas, killed their child after she refused an arranged marriage.
After that, the two fled the nation, with Abbas later discovered and extradited from Pakistan in August 2023.
However, Shaheen, 51, had apparently been kept out of custody until this week when she was officially tracked down to a community on Kashmir’s borders in a police operation involving Interpol and the Pakistan Federal Police, according to sources in Italy’s Ansa.
She appeared in court on Friday in the region’s capital Islamabad, for repatriation techniques, Italian media reported.
Saman Abbas’s therefore- called honour dying by her home in soon April 2021 shocked Italy. Following her departure, Italy’s federation of Muslim communities issued a edict- a theological ruling- rejecting forced marriages.
According to Roman studies, the student had moved with her home from Pakistan to the land area of Novellara in 2016.
Saman Abbas ‘ home wanted her to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage in 2020 after learning that she was dating, but she turned down.
After being tricked into returning, she spent several months living there for social services before returning to the family residence in Novellara, according to European reports.
Lawyers said it was at this point the girl disappeared.
After her brother revealed where she had been buried, Saman Abbas’s figure was ultimately discovered in November of that year, near to a farm house close to the family’s home.
She had a broken neck tooth, according to a post-mortem examination, perhaps as a result of being strangled.