RAWALPINDI: The body of a US-Pakistani woman, Wajiha Swati, was flown out to the United States on Friday from the Islamabad International Airport.
The US embassy staff also accompanied the body to the airport. Swati’s body was handed over to her legal heirs a day earlier, after the interior ministry issued a no-objection certificate to transfer her body to the US.
Earlier last night, the body was first shifted to the Rawalpindi Medical College from the Rawalpindi District Hospital for embalming (preserving against decaying) where the US diplomatic staff was also present.
Swati had reached Pakistan on October 16 from the US via the UK and was brutally murdered the next day by her former husband Rizwan Habib and his accomplices.
The body was transported to Khyber-Pakhtunkwa by the killers and it remained buried in a deep pit for 63 days before the Rawalpindi police recovered it and shifted it to Rawalpindi.
The police have arrested the slain woman’s ex-husband Rizwan Habib, his father, their domestic worker and three other accused. -Agencies
