A British woman suspected to have been the victim of an "honour killing" in Pakistan had been suffocated according to a forensic report, police said Wednesday.
Mukhtar Kazam, in a complaint to police, has said his wife Samia Shahid was murdered during a visit to her family in a village in Punjab province on July 20.
Shahid's father has denied the charge and claimed his daughter died of natural causes.
At an emotional press conference last week Kazam presented a copy of a post-mortem report which said the 28-year-old had marks on her neck, suggesting she had been strangled.
Police said the latest forensic report had confirmed Shahid died an unnatural death.
"The forensic report has been received by a three-member special investigation committee set up by chief minister Punjab and according to it Samia Shahid's death occurred due to asphyxia," Abubakar Khuda Bakhsh, the chief investigator, told AFP.
Kazam has described his wife's death as an "honour killing", a near daily occurrence in Pakistan in which a relative is murdered by another for bringing what is deemed dishonour to the family.
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