PAKISTAN ARRESTS MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING DAUGHTER IN ITALY: POLICE

LAHORE: A Pakistani man suspected of killing his 18-year-old daughter in Italy after she refused an arranged marriage has been arrested and is being questioned by investigators in the capital, Islamabad, a senior police official said on Friday.

Shabbir Abbas was arrested in his village in the eastern Punjab province following a tip-off by Italian authorities and local police, the official Anwar Saeed Kingra said.

His daughter, Saman Abbas, was last seen in late April by neighbours in the vicinity of her family’s home in the farm town of Novellara, near the city of Reggio Emilia. A few days later, a Milan airport video showed her parents, who had reportedly been pressuring her to marry a man she had never met, catching a flight to Pakistan.

Amir Shaheen, another senior Pakistani police investigator, said the woman’s father was being sought by Italian police on a charge of killing his daughter.

He refused to share any further details, saying the suspect was in the custody of the country’s Federal Investigation Agency, which was approached by Interpol to seek the arrest and extradition of the man to Italy in connection with the murder of the woman.