<p class="title">A Christian bride was allegedly tortured to death by her husband under mysterious circumstances a day after their marriage in Pakistan's Punjab province.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sawera Maqbool, 30, got married to Asif Jan of Shama Colony, a thickly-populated area of Lahore on Saturday last. The next day, she was found dead in her bedroom.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the first information report (FIR) lodged by her brother Suleman Masih, Sawera was subjected to “severe torture” by her husband Asif Jan and his family members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When we visited Jan's house next morning of the couple's wedding to deliver them traditional breakfast we were told that Sawera was rushed to hospital as she was not well.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Upon reaching the hospital, doctors pronounced her dead and declared it is a police case due to bruises on parts of her body," Masih told police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police officer Abdur Rashid told PTI that police are investigating the case on different lines.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The body has been sent for autopsy that will ascertain the exact cause of her death," he said, adding it is an unusual case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Whether she was poisoned after torture or she had a cardiac arrest…autopsy will determine this," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rashid said that Jan has been taken into custody and is being interrogated.</p>
<p class="title">A Christian bride was allegedly tortured to death by her husband under mysterious circumstances a day after their marriage in Pakistan's Punjab province.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sawera Maqbool, 30, got married to Asif Jan of Shama Colony, a thickly-populated area of Lahore on Saturday last. The next day, she was found dead in her bedroom.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the first information report (FIR) lodged by her brother Suleman Masih, Sawera was subjected to “severe torture” by her husband Asif Jan and his family members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When we visited Jan's house next morning of the couple's wedding to deliver them traditional breakfast we were told that Sawera was rushed to hospital as she was not well.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Upon reaching the hospital, doctors pronounced her dead and declared it is a police case due to bruises on parts of her body," Masih told police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police officer Abdur Rashid told PTI that police are investigating the case on different lines.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The body has been sent for autopsy that will ascertain the exact cause of her death," he said, adding it is an unusual case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Whether she was poisoned after torture or she had a cardiac arrest…autopsy will determine this," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rashid said that Jan has been taken into custody and is being interrogated.</p>