Not only for fraud as it emerged at first, Shabbar Abbas was arrested for the murder of his daughter Saman , who disappeared from Novellara (Reggio Emilia) in 2021.
The man's escape was interrupted in his native Punjab , the region where he lived before moving to work in the Reggio countryside and where he had hurriedly returned with his wife to escape arrest by the Italian authorities.
Yesterday the Pakistani federal police reached him at 6pm local time and handcuffed him on the basis of a request for provisional arrest for extradition purposes made by Italy and implemented by Pakistan. He was alone and offered no resistance. His wife Nazia Shaheen is untraceable, as reported by Pakistan to the Italian authorities. The arrest warrant also concerns her, as does the extradition request signed in July 2021 by Minister Marta Cartabia.
Shabbar Abbas was taken to the capital Islamabad, where the hearing for the notification of the documents took place today behind closed doors. The next one, scheduled for November 24, will be dedicated to defense counter-arguments.
HISTORY
Saman was punished according to Italian investigators for objecting to an arranged marriage . She had first denounced her family members and had been placed in a protected community for a period. Then, when she turned 18, the girl had returned to the family, but only to have the documents and be able to live her own life, with a boyfriend she met in Italy.
Parents didn't allow it. According to the investigation , they murdered her in competition with three other relatives, her uncle Danish Hasnain and her cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq .
All five have already been indicted, with the first hearing of the trial set for February 10. But it is not yet clear whether Italy will have obtained the handover of Shabbar from Pakistan by that date, in the absence of treaties on extraditions, nor for how long it will remain in custody in its country.
