ROME: A man wanted for killing his 18-year-old daughter has been extradited from Pakistan to Italy to face trial, Italy’s justice minister said Thursday.
Shabbar Abbas was arrested in his village in eastern Pakistan last November on suspicion of killing Saman Abbas, his daughter who went missing in April 2021 after she refused to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
“It’s a step forward that will allow justice to run its course after a terrible crime,” Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said in a statement, adding that the suspect was on his way to Italy.
The teenage victim was identified from 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 believe the family was angered when they discovered Abbas had a boyfriend in Italy.
She claims she was killed when she returned to the family home to collect some documents after living nearby in the care of social services for a while.
The father denied that his daughter was dead. Her uncle, along with two of her cousins, was extradited from France to stand trial.
