Pakistani model found dead at her Lahore home, reports suggest ‘strangled to death’

New Delhi: Pakistani model Nayab Nadeem was found dead at her residence in Lahore’s Defence area on Sunday.

According to the First Information Report of the incident, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, 29-year-old Nayab Nadeem, a model by profession, was strangulated to death by unknown suspects at her house in DHA Phase-V.

Station SHO Nayyar Nisar said police suspected that the model was strangulated, but added that the post-mortem report will reveal the facts about her death.

Police said they had filed a case on the complaint of her step-brother Mohammad Ali, who stated that he had found her body lying on the floor when he came to visit her, reported Dawn.

According to the complainant, Nayab lived alone in the house and she wasn’t married.

In May, a Pakistani-origin British woman was found dead at her rented house in Lahore’s DHA. Identified as Maya (25), she was shot in the head. She had arrived from the UK some two months back where her family was settled.

Earlier, model Qandeel Baloch was strangled to death at her home in Punjab by her brother Wasim in 2016.

The annual report of the State of Human Rights in Pakistan released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for the year 2020 has set alarm bells ringing over the plight of women in the country.

The HRCP has highlighted other forms of violence against women, which include sexual assault and domestic violence prevalent across the country.

Other human rights abuses to target women include child marriage and honour killings, which even though impact men as well, are largely centered on controlling and subjugating women according to experts.

The HRCP report reiterated Pakistan’s concerning standing on the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum, where the country is placed third from bottom, i.e. 151 out of 153 countries.