ISLAMABAD: Investigators have arrested the woman who allegedly shot dead a PAF official on Friday.

“She was traced to her sister’s house in Pirwadhai and has confessed to the crime,” police sources told Dawn.

She killed him because he refused to marry her despite “a relationship spread over four years”.

Analysis of her mobile’s IEMI (International Mobile Station Equipment Identity) and SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) helped the investigators reach the girl.

Her SIM was found activated in the area the official was gunned down, and both had talked to each other just hours before the tragedy.

Police quoted the accused as saying that their friendship developed over phone in 2011 when she was a college student in Haripur.

“After the friendship flowered into love and the relationship deepened, she pressed him to marry her but he refused saying his parents didn’t agree to it.”

She later moved to Islamabad to do a masters course in a university.

She said her lover asked her to visit his parents in Pindi Gheb to win their approval for marriage which she did “but the parents refused”.

Police quoted an uncle of the slain man that after being rejected, the girl had threatened the parents.

In the days preceding her revenge, she claimed her lover had been hinting at breaking their relationship and asked for a last meeting.

That meeting was fixed for Friday and she planned to murder him if he would not change his mind.

Police quoted the girl that the officer picked her up from her hostel and while he was taking her to F-9 Park she again tried to make him agree to marry her. But his categorical “no” apparently sealed his fate.

Police quoted her as saying that as they were moving on Ninth Avenue and neared G-9/4 area she asked him to slow down his motorcycle. As he did she pulled out a pistol and shot him. Both fell off the motorcycle as it went into a swing – he ending up dead and she just bruised.

“I ran towards Peshawar Mor, caught a taxi and reached my sister’s house,” she told the police.

SI Shafqat Ali told Dawn it is yet to be determined from where she got the weapon. She will be produced in the court of a magistrate to seek her physical remand for further investigation.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2015

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