NEW YORK, April 18: A New York court on Wednesday convicted a Pakistani Mansoor Quadir for killing his niece’s husband in an “honour killing” incident on the streets of Manhattan.

Quadir, 41, of Blackburn, England, was found guilty of murder-for-hire and conspiracy. He faces life in prison when sentenced Aug. 27.

He killed Shaukat Pervez, husband of Rubina Mallik of Rawalpindi, Pakistan to collect a $60,000 bounty offered by the father of Ms Mallik.

As a girl in Pakistan, Quadir’s 26-year-old niece, Rubina Mallik, testified that she had been promised by her father to marry a distant relative.

She said her father locked her in a room, beat her and threatened to kill her true love, Shaukat Parvez, and his family.

He also forced her to go through with the arranged marriage.

But in 1994, with the blessing of her arranged husband, Mallik said she fled Pakistan to New York City to be with Parvez.