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Growing up in the English city of Bradford, Simea Shahid was a typical high spirited girl.

She enjoyed fashion and fast cars and was popular, funny and headstrong. Simea's family

fully supported her endeavors, especially her father, Muhammad. There was no question

that Simea was a daddy's girl. The Shahid family were well known around Bradford. Simea's

parents ran a limousine and car service business. One of her uncles owned a fishing chip shop

and another the local florist. The Shahid family tree also extended to their ancestral

home of Pandori, a small village in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Simea and her younger

sister Medihar were given latitude to enjoy their western upbringing, though only up to

a point. The Shahids remained true to their sonny Muslim faith and Pakistani heritage. In

2012, as Simea reached her mid-twenties, her parents felt it was time for her to settle down

and marry. Although arranged marriages weren't required by the Simea faith, they were encouraged

if not expected through Pakistani tradition. Simea wanted to make her family happy and

proud and was open to the idea. Muhammad Shahid chose a man named Chaudhry Shaqil to

be his daughter's husband. Simea was less than enthused. Shaqil lived in Pandori and

had just been released from prison for a non-fatal shooting of another man over a land dispute.

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