Journalist Ali Salman Alvi arrested for allegedly murdering wife Sadaf Zahra

A journalist, who worked as the producer for anchor Asma Shirazi, was arrested late last month on charges of murdering his wife and covering it up as suicide.

Ali Salman Alvi was arrested by police on June 29 on charges that he killed his wife, Sadaf Zahra, and then made her death out to be a suicide. An official First Information Report (FIR) was filed by his sister on the same day, accusing Alvi of beating up his wife, torturing her, cheating on her and blackmailing several women for money on Twitter with various accounts.

The entire incident came to light as a result of a thread posted on Twitter by a woman who said she was a friend of Sadar’s sister, Mahwish. In it, she accused Alvi of cheating on her and beating her several times and proceeded to share screenshots of alleged conversations between Alvi and Sadaf as well as Alvi and several women.

I am gona tell the tragic tale about my dear friend @SadafZNaqvi , how she was trapped into marriage by a thug , who killed her in the end. His name is @alisalmanalvi . #JusticeForZahra #AliSalmanAlviMurderer #Thread #auratmarch #DomesticViolence #domesticabuse pic.twitter.com/ATXk0yIiHr

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

Social media activist/TV Producer Ali Salman Alvi is a pathological womaniser, blackmailer & murderer of his wife!

Those who give sermons of morality on Social Media are mostly highest order perverts themselves.
Hope he’s hanged for his crimes.#JusticeForZahra pic.twitter.com/yLV6wTkTaL

— Mona Alam (@MonaAlamm) July 8, 2020

she met @alisalmanalvi on twitter. Ali Salman was a journalist who saw a beautiful, responsible strong woman with a stable family background and decided to trap her for marriage. She wanted children, a house of her own and a stable life, which by the way was her birthright.

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

just after 7 months of marriage sadaf found out that @alisalmanalvi is blackmailing women for money using different twitter IDs. She found emails and receipts of money sent to ali salman . on confrontation salman apologized by saying it was an old chapter that he needed closure pic.twitter.com/WeMJM6hCI9

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

A year into the marriage @SadafZNaqvi found out once again that @alisalmanalvi was dating a women in #Islamabad .
She confronted him again, warned him and told him politely to mend his ways. pic.twitter.com/dOBv1jJdLd

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

Following year sadaf becomes a mother of a beautiful girl. Now she assumes that her husband will change since he is a father. but soon after the delivery , She finds that @alisalmanalvi is flirting with his ex girlfriend . pic.twitter.com/XroirLJzHv

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

She didnt wanted her daughter to live without a father may be that was the reason she choose to stay back . but once again some months forward she catches @alisalmanalvi man doing live video chat with a woman. she goes furious and decides to leave him for good. pic.twitter.com/r9T3oVVxIZ

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

She was beaten one more time, from jan 2020 to june 2020, which was discovered later. on 20th june @SadafZNaqvi celebrated her daughters first birthday, on the morning of 29th june she is found dead at her home with brutal torture.

— F Arif (@SagiArif) July 7, 2020

Alvi used to torture, beat up wife: FIR

An FIR was registered under Section 302 (punishment for murder) on June 29 on behalf of the victim’s sister, Mahwish.

Mahwish said in the complaint that she had rushed to her sister’s place in Yousuf Colony, along with her mother and husband, after she received a call from Alvi telling her that “Sadaf has done something to herself”.

When she arrived at her sister’s house, Alvi opened the front door and all other doors in the house were closed. She opened a room in the house to find her sister hanging from the ceiling fan.

Mahwish stated in the FIR that she pulled her sister down from the fan and untied her, only to find that she had already died.

Mahwish subsequently accused Alvi of murdering his wife, alleging that he had beaten up Sadaf multiple times over the years and had tortured her as well.

She claimed that he had been warned against the abuse several times but he did not desist.