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A Canadian woman who converted to Islam was murdered in an honour killing investigators say was made to look like a suicide.

According to Pakistan’s Express News, Safia Nasir, 40, was killed sometime over the past week.

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So far, it isn’t known what her pre-conversion name was or where she was from in Canada. She reportedly married a man from Pakistan and lived with him in the Samnabad area.

What is known is that she converted a number of years ago and had a nine-month-old child.

Cops were called and told that Nasir had committed suicide by hanging.

By the time police arrived, Nasir was already dead. Detectives quickly ascertained that her death was not a suicide as they had been told.

Instead, it’s believed she was strangled with a noose and then strung up to make her death appear to be a suicide.

Honour killings are an issue that Pakistan has struggled with.

Last May, cops determined that Pakistani-Italian Sana Cheema, 26, did not die a natural death.

Instead, an autopsy revealed that she had been strangled to death — even though her family claimed Cheema had died of natural causes.

Her own parents reportedly submitted forged documents to the Italian embassy coupled with bogus medical records detailing a chronic illness.

Police arrested her brother, father and an uncle.