An Australian woman has reportedly been killed by her father-in-law in Pakistan amid a rift to bring her children back to Australia. 9News
that Sajida Tasneem, 32, wanted to return to Australia with her three children for a better education, something her in-laws opposed.
says it has verified a copy of the police report by Khan that accuses his daughter's father-in-law, Mukhtar Ahmad, of murdering his daughter using an axe.According to a translation of a BBC report in Urdu, Tasneem studied engineering in Karachi and married in Pakistan in 2011. A few months later the couple moved to Saudi Arabia, where their son was born. In 2013 Tasneem took a job in Perth and moved to Australia, where she gave birth to two daughters.
At her husband's insistence, she eventually returned to Pakistan, where it's alleged her father-in-law confiscated their passports.
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