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Canadian Islam convert strangled in honour killing: Cops

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A Canadian woman who converted to Islam was murdered in an honour killing investigators say was made to look like a suicide.

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According to Pakistan’s Express News, Safia Nasir, 40, was killed sometime over the past week.

So far, it isn’t known what her pre-conversion name was or where she was from in Canada. She reportedly married a man from Pakistan and lived with him in the Samnabad area.

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What is known is that she converted a number of years ago and had a nine-month-old child.

Cops were called and told that Nasir had committed suicide by hanging.

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By the time police arrived, Nasir was already dead. Detectives quickly ascertained that her death was not a suicide as they had been told.

Instead, it’s believed she was strangled with a noose and then strung up to make her death appear to be a suicide.

Honour killings are an issue that Pakistan has struggled with.

Last May, cops determined that Pakistani-Italian Sana Cheema, 26, did not die a natural death.

Italian-Pakistani woman Sana Cheema was murdered in an honour killing last May. Her father, upper right, a brother and an uncle are charged with her murder.
Italian-Pakistani woman Sana Cheema was murdered in an honour killing last May. Her father, upper right, a brother and an uncle are charged with her murder.

Instead, an autopsy revealed that she had been strangled to death — even though her family claimed Cheema had died of natural causes.

Her own parents reportedly submitted forged documents to the Italian embassy coupled with bogus medical records detailing a chronic illness.

Police arrested her brother, father and an uncle.

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