On 27 December, Glasgow resident Sobia Wali secretly married a man her parents disapproved of.  She was three months pregnant at the time.

Ms Wali died last week under mysterious circumstances in Lahore, Pakistan, where she went with her family to attend her grandmother’s funeral.  The family says she died of an infection, but it has emerged that she was admitted to an abortion hospital and died shortly thereafter at a second hospital. She was 22 years old.

A police source in Lahore said Wali, from Crookston, Glasgow, was initially admitted to Najma Zia, understood to be a hospital, for a termination, but was subsequently taken to the Surgimed hospital in Lahore where she died.

Her husband, Usman Gulzar, 24, a shop assistant from Glasgow, has reportedly told friends she had sent him text messages from Pakistan asking for his help.

A day after sending the messages, she died apparently from food poisoning or a virus. A close friend of the couple told the Daily Record that Wali, who married Gulzar on December 27 in a registry office in Glasgow, had not told her parents of the wedding because they had banned them from seeing each other.

Some Scottish news sources are reporting that she died of complications following a forced, botched abortion.

Family members reject allegations that an abortion led to her death, saying that she fell ill and died tragically despite receiving the best medical care available.

Strathclyde Police are investigating the circumstances of her death.  Mohammed Sarwar, a Muslim MP from Glasgow, will speak to detectives tomorrow.  He is reportedly urging that Sobia’s body be exhumed for an autopsy.

Detectives in Pakistan and the British High Commission in Lahore are also investigating.