A lady convicted of murdering her teenage daughter in Italy has reportedly been arrested in Pakistan after three years on the run.
An Italian court docket gave Nazia Shaheen a life sentence in absentia final December for the 2021 killing of Saman Abbas, 18.
Shaheen and her husband, Shabbar Abbas, killed their daughter after she refused an organized marriage.
The 2 then fled the nation, with Abbas finally discovered and extradited from Pakistan in August 2023.
However Shaheen, 51, had prevented arrest till this week, when she was reportedly tracked to a village on Kashmir’s border in an operation involving Interpol and the Pakistan Federal Police, sources instructed Italian information company Ansa.
She appeared in court docket on Friday within the nation’s capital Islamabad, for extradition procedures, Italian newspapers reported.
Saman Abbas’s so-called honour killing by her household in late April 2021 shocked Italy. Following her disappearance, Italy’s union of Islamic communities issued a fatwa – a spiritual ruling – rejecting pressured marriages.
{The teenager} had emigrated along with her household from Pakistan to the farm city of Novellara in 2016, in keeping with Italian reviews.
After discovering out Saman Abbas was relationship, the household had needed her to journey to Pakistan for an organized marriage in 2020, however she refused.
She then spent a number of months dwelling below the safety of social providers, however returned to the household dwelling in Novellara seven months later, after being tricked into returning, Italian reviews stated.
Prosecutors stated it was at this level {the teenager} disappeared.
Saman Abbas’s physique was finally recovered in November 2021, near a farm home not removed from the place the household lived, after her uncle had revealed the place she had been buried.
A put up mortem examination discovered she had suffered a damaged neck bone, probably because of being strangled.
