[Dawn] The body of a girl who had been found dead in a ditch on the edge of Islamabad on Monday has been identified as a model and beauty queen from Singapore, police said on Tuesday.Fehmina Chaudhry, 27, a Singapore-based model originally from Bloody Karachi
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, went missing last Thursday while visiting Islamabad to buy property, police said.
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the real estate broker and after interrogation, he told officers that he had murdered the model and dumped her body in a stream at the outskirts of the city," Islamabad police front man Muhammad Naeem told AFP.
Her promoter in Pakistain, Asif Hashmi confirmed Chaudhry's death, and said she was married with a son and a daughter.
"She was a dedicated philanthropist and she was planning to set up a fashion school in Pakistain," Hashmi said, adding that she had won several beauty contests.
The officer leading the investigation, Yasir Afridi, said Chaudhry's mother had contacted her for the last time on the evening of October 10, after which she received a text message saying her daughter had been kidnapped.
"She used to visit Pakistain often to see her mother and was staying at a private hotel in Islamabad where she came to buy real estate for her mother," Yasir said.