{"id":1472,"date":"2018-01-30T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T08:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T08:49:40","slug":"samia-shahid-accused-father-in-honour-killing-case-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/samia-shahid-accused-father-in-honour-killing-case-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Samia Shahid: Accused father in &#8216;honour killing&#8217; case dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A man accused of being involved in the death of his daughter in Pakistan in an alleged &#8220;honour killing&#8221; has died.<\/p>\n<p>Samia Shahid, a 28-year-old from Bradford in West Yorkshire, died while visiting relatives in the country in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid, 52, had been held as a suspected accessory and was released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Sunday in a hospital in Lahore, his family confirmed. The cause of death has not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Shahid&#8217;s first husband Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder and is awaiting trial in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Initially it was said Ms Shahid, a beautician, had died of a heart attack but a post-mortem examination found she had been strangled.<\/p>\n<p>After an arranged marriage to her cousin Mr Shakeel broke down, she married Syed Mukhtar Kazam. The couple wed in Leeds in 2014 and moved to Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kazam claims his wife was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leeds-42862112\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leeds-42862112<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of being involved in the death of his daughter in Pakistan in an alleged &#8220;honour killing&#8221; has died. Samia Shahid, a 28-year-old from Bradford in West Yorkshire, died while visiting relatives in the country in July 2016. Her father, Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid, 52, had been held as a suspected accessory and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honour-killings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}