ISLAMABAD: Golra police on Tuesday arrested an individual suspected of killing his teenage wife last month in a rural part of the city, police said.

They added that the victim was murdered for ‘honour’, and the man murdered her over suspicions.

On July 12, deceased 17 year old Nazia Parveen was brought to a hospital, where a post-mortem examination suggested she had been strangled. Her father told the police he had left for his native town, Sargodha, and left his two daughters behind at a house in Mohalla Prianwala, Golra.

He said he later received a call telling him his daughter had been killing, and returned to Islamabad. The police added that a murder case had been registered against unidentified individuals.

They said the police investigation rounded up two dozen suspects, and the phone records of the victim and others, including her husband, were also obtained. They said her husband was picked up and interrogated, during which he confessed to the killing.

The suspect told the police he had married the victim four months ago but they had not started living together.

The police said he added that during this period he grew suspicious of her and, when she ignored his warnings, he killed her.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2016