Pakistan government to launch manhunt to arrest Sharjah murder suspect

Dubai : The Pakistan government is preparing to launch a manhunt in a bid to arrest Asif Kiyani who allegedly killed his wife in Sharjah and fled the UAE last Thursday.

“We will alert the authorities in Pakistan as soon as we get the final investigation report from the Sharjah Police and bring the culprit to justice,” Qayyum Khugani, Consul at the Pakistan Consulate General in Dubai, told Gulf News yesterday.

If necessary, he added, they will also issue an Interpol alert to nab the alleged murderer and bring him back to the UAE for trial. “We are very hopeful of tracking him down,” he added.

Asif Kiyani is accused of murdering his wife Sameera Kiyani, 37, —-both Pakistani, last Thursday. . The woman’s body was found covered with a piece of cloth on a car seat. Though the reason behind the murder is not clear yet as police are still investigating the case, the consulate official suspects that strained relations between the couple led to the murder.

“We still cannot comment what h exactly happened but initially investigation revealed that husband and wife had not been on good terms for a long time,” said Mir Azhar Talpur, Welfare Consular at the Pakistan Consulate General in Dubai.

Talpur told Gulf News the consulate is pursing the case with Sharjah police and will also arrange to send Sameera’s body back to Karachi as soon as it is released after autopsy.

Gulf News found out that Sameera, who had a masters degree in Economics, taught at a Pakistani school in Sharjah two years ago and then she started teaching in a Dubai school. They were married for about 11 years.

One of her students, who does not want be identified, said: “‘My teacher was very beautiful, decent, polite and a well-educated person.. We all are shocked and miss her.”

Sameera has four children aged between 11 months and eight years. They are currently living with her cousin S,A.K. in Sharjah and will be sent back to Karachi soon.

According to initial reports collected by the consulate, on the day of the murder, Asif left his four children with his neighbour telling them he was taking his wife to a doctor. The neighbour called him to collect the children when the couple did not turn up for hours. Asif told them that his wife had had aheart attack and they were in the hospital.

The neigbour reportedly called Asif again when it was quite late and they were informed that he would be late because his wife had passed away and he was completing the paper work at the hospital. After that there was no contact with him.

Asif reportedly called Sameera’s cousin from the airport before fleeing the country saying t‘I have done the job,’ and told him to collect the children from their neigbour in Yarmouk area in Sharjah.

Asif, who worked with a Dubai-based company in the safety section, reportedly took his passport from the office with the excuse of some emergency. He is from Punjab province’s area known as Gujjar Khan, the hometown of Pakistani prime minister Raja Pervez Ashfraf but the family was settled in Karachi.