Murdered Pakistani model on verge of living Bollywood dream

Singapore-based Pakistani model Fehmina Chaudhry had overcome a divorce and was working hard to make it in Bollywood before she was murdered.

The body of a missing model was found dumped in a ditch out the outskirts of Islamabad.

Fehmina Chaudhry, 27, disappeared last Thursday while visiting her home country to buy property, local police said.

Estate agent Maaz Waqar has confessed to the murder of supermodel mother-of-two, originally from Karachi, and is in police custody.

Chaudhry went missing last week, after which her mother received demands for money in return for her daughter. Islamabad police tracked down Mr Waqar, who admitted to murdering the beauty queen after interrogation.

She used to visit Pakistan often to see her mother and was staying at a private hotel in Islamabad where she came to buy real estate for her mother

Lively and bubbly, Ms Fehmina Chaudhry, a model and beauty queen, also had dreams of breaking into Bollywood.

Ms Chaudhry belonged to a well-to-do family but worked hard at her job as a bank executive in wealth management, pulling longer hours than most, before she went into modeling.

The Pakistani model from Karachi was based in Singapore and was thought by ex-colleagues to hold Singapore permanent residency.

A friend from India, financial consultant Umesh Agarwal, 36, said Ms Chaudhry had dreams of joining Bollywood.

He had distributed her portfolio to many of the top production houses and she was scheduled to fly to India on December 4 for auditions, he added.

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