A Pakistani-Italian man wanted for murdering his daughter has been arrested from his native village in Pakistan and extradited to Italy for trial.
Geo reports that according to the Italian justice minister, Shabbar Abbas was arrested in November 2022 on suspicion of killing his 18-year-old daughter, Saman Abbas.
Saman went missing in April 2021 after she refused to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
The father’s arrest is considered as a “step forward to allow justice to run its full course after a horrific crime” , says Carlo Nordio, the Italian justice minister, in a statement.
According to Geo News, teenage Saman was identified by dental records after human remains were found near her family home in the northern Italian town of Novellara more than a year after her disappearance.
Prosecutors suspect Saman having a boyfriend angered her parents.
They further allege she was killed when she visited her home to collect some documents after living nearby under the care of social services.
The father, however, denies the murdering his daughter. Her uncle has also been extradited from France for the trial, along with two of her cousins.
