Together, both Shah and son lived on a farmhouse owned by the former in tony Chak Shahzad area of Islamabad. Shahnawaz married three times. Sara Inam, a 37-year-old Canadian national, was his third wife.
Shahnawaz was nabbed by police on Friday for allegedly killing Sara who had arrived in Islamabad the day before from Dubai where she was working. Shah had alerted police after the suspect killed the woman, according to SHO Nawazish Ali Khan. The suspect locked himself in a room when police reached the scene of the crime: the Chak Shahzad farmhouse. He was held with blood splattered clothes after police broke into. An FIR of the incident has been lodged under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code -- Punishment for Murder on the complaint of SHO Khan.
The suspect reportedly forwarded a photograph featuring the deceased lying in a bathtub to father Ayaz, according to daily Jang. Shahnawaz detailed how he had struck Sara with a dumbbell laid nearby in his confession before police.