Islamabad police get one-day physical remand of senior journalist Ayaz Amir in Sara murder case.

ISLAMABAD -- As police continued to investigate the murder of a Canadian national allegedly by her husband, a local Islamabad court approved on Sunday a one-day physical remand of senior journalist Ayaz Amir - the suspect's father - for his alleged involvement in the crime at a Chak Shahzad residence.

On Friday, the police arrested the journalist's son Shahnawaz Amir for allegedly killing his wife Sara Inam, 37, a day after she arrived from Dubai - where she had been working.

The incident took place at a farmhouse located in the capital's Shahzad Town suburb where the suspect lived along with his mother.

On Saturday, Islamabad Police produced Shahnawaz in the court of Judicial Magistrate Mubasher Hasan Chishti and obtained his two-day physical remand.

Police had on Saturday also approached a local court seeking arrest warrants for Ayaz. He was taken into custody later in the day after the warrants were issued by the court.

At the hearing today, Ayaz and his son Shahnawaz, the prime suspect, were produced before judge Zahid Tirmizi.

The journalist informed the court that he had apprised the police of the murder, saying the police did not even had information about his farmhouse's location.

His lawyer said Ayaz was not even nominated in the case. However, police insisted that the case was a high-profile one and pertained to a murder of a Canadian national. The investigation officer requested the court to grant a five-day physical remand of the journalist.

Ayaz expressed his...