Plea to arrest journalist Ayaz Amir, wife accepted in Canadian national murder case.

ISLAMABAD -- A local court in Islamabad accepted the police plea seeking approval for the arrest warrants of senior journalist Ayaz Amir and his wife in a case pertaining to the murder of their daughter-in-law, who is a Canadian national.

Senior journalist Ayaz Amir's son Shahnawaz allegedly killed his wife Sara at home after a row over a "family issue" on Friday.

Shahnawaz - who was detained by the police from the farmhouse in Islamabad's Chak Shahzad area for being a suspect in his wife's murder - confessed to committing the crime and said that he "thought" his spouse was having an affair with someone else.

Today, the suspect was presented before the court of a civil judge, Mubashir Hassan Chishti, where the investigation officer informed him that the suspect "killed his wife in cold blood."

During the hearing, the police requested the court to grant a 10-day physical remand of suspect Shahnawaz for interrogation.

At this, Shahnawaz's lawyer said that it was a...