The ex-husband of a British woman who died in Pakistan in an alleged “honour killing” has verbally confessed to her murder, according to police sources. 
 
 Samia Shahid, a 28-year-old beautician from Bradford, was killed while visiting her ancestral relatives in northern Punjab last month. 
 
 Though Ms Shahid’s relatives in Pakistan claim she died of a heart attack, her second husband says he believes she was murdered in a so-called “honour killing” because the family disapproved of her marriage to him. 
 
 Ms Shahid’s ex-husband, Choudhry Shakeel, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Her father, Mohammed, has also been arrested and is accused of being an accomplice. 
 
 Both men appeared in shackles and with their faces covered in a court in the northern city of Jhelum on Saturday, where a judge ordered that they be held for four days as charges are gathered against them. ||||| Image copyright Family photo Image caption Samia Shahid was strangled with a scarf, according to her former husband's confession 
 
 The former husband of a woman allegedly murdered in Pakistan has confessed to killing her, a police source has told the BBC. 
 
 Samia Shahid, 28, a beautician from Bradford, died last month in northern Punjab in what is believed to have been a so-called honour killing. 
 
 Ex-husband Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel was arrested on suspicion of murder. 
 
 He has now said he strangled Ms Shahid with a scarf, according to BBC Pakistan correspondent Shaimaa Khalil. 
 
 The beautician's father Chaudhry Mohammad Shahid has been held as an accessory to murder. 
 
 Image caption Ms Shahid's father (left) and former husband appeared in court at the weekend 
 
 Both appeared in court in Pakistan on Saturday and were remanded for four days. 
 
 Police had previously denied reports of Mr Shakeel's confession when he and Mr Shahid were arrested and brought to court. 
 
 Ms Shahid's relatives had initially claimed she died of a heart attack, but her husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, claims she was killed. 
 
 A post-mortem examination has since confirmed she died as a result of being strangled, police said. 
 
 Mr Kazam, who is Ms Shahid's second husband, believes his wife was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage. 
 
 In his confession, Mr Shakeel, who is also Ms Shahid's cousin, reportedly said he had demanded she leave her second husband and remarry him - which she refused to do. 
 
 Ms Shahid had filed for divorce and married her second husband in the UK.
– A British woman was murdered in an "honor killing" in Pakistan last month, and her ex-husband has confessed to the crime, police sources tell the Telegraph. Samia Shahid, 28, was visiting her relatives in northern Punjab when, those relatives say, she died of a heart attack. Her second husband suspected an "honor killing" over disapproval of her marriage to him. Now her ex, Choudhry Shakeel, and her father, Mohammed, have been arrested, Shakeel for the alleged murder and Shahid's father for allegedly being an accomplice. The BBC reports that Shakeel allegedly admitted he strangled Shahid with a scarf after she refused to leave her second husband and remarry Shakeel. Authorities are still collecting evidence because "confessional statements have no value in the court" in Pakistan, a police officer explains.