ISLAMABAD – A woman, who was believed to have been murdered by her husbandeight years ago, was arrested after she surfaced this week with her secondhusband and six children in Punjab province.

The woman, 30-year-old Asma Bibi, reappeared at her village Phalayan inJhelum district, 250 km from Lahore this week under a new name of Neelam.

A family member of her first husband filed a complaint against her afterwhich the police arrested her.

A Jhelum Police spokesperson said Asma in 2009 had been married to IbrarAhmed.

In 2010, she went missing and her mother had told police that her daughterhad been murdered by Ibrar.

Police registered a murder case against him under section 302 of PakistanPenal Code and arrested him.

He said the complainant later withdrew her complaint against Ibrar “aftergetting compensation money”.

The police official said Asma had eloped with Nazeer Ahmed of her nativevillage whom she had relations before marriage.

She had a second marriage with Ahmed and left for Dubai where he worked.During the last eight years she gave birth to six children in Dubai, policesaid, adding the couple and their children have returned to Pakistan afterAhmed ended up jobless there.

“We filed a case against Asma and her second husband under sections 494 and420 of Pakistan Penal Code for contracting a second marriage withoutdivorce from the first husband,” the police official said.

Asma told police that her family had married her off to Ibrar against herwill.