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'I decided to forgive and forget': Widow, 42, tells judge her uncle, 60, can move into her home when he is released from prison for the 1996 NYC murder of her husband

Manzoor Qadar, 60, pictured in an undated mugshot

Manzoor Qadar, 60, pictured in an undated mugshot

A New York City widow has said her uncle can move into her home when he is released from prison for the 1996 murder of her husband.

Rubina Malik, 42, told New York Daily News she has decided to forgive Manzoor Qadar, 60, for executing Shuakat Parvez in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by her father. 

'I do miss my husband - a lot. But I decided to forgive and forget,' she said.  

Qadar was convicted in 2002 of gunning down Parvez outside the home he shared with Malik in Astoria, Queens, almost 25 years ago. 

Prosecutors said Qadar was paid $60,000 by Malik Rahmet Khan - Qadar's brother and Malik's father - to carry out the hit after Malik secretly wed Parvez when her family had set up an arranged marriage with another man, Khurram Khan. 

Rahmet Khan, an influential Pakistani businessman, had also planned for Qadar to execute both his daughter and Khurram Khan, after he fled with Malik to New York City to help her reunite with Parvez. 

Malik and Khurram Khan survived while Qadar has long maintained his innocence of Parvez's murder, instead claiming Malik's brother Omar Malik pulled the trigger. 

'I decided to forgive him because I know how hard it is raising children without a father,' Malik told the Daily News of her killer uncle. 

'I did mine and still I need a father figure in my son's life. It's very, very hard to have lived your life without a husband.'   

Malik, who had a son with Parvez who is now 23, wrote a letter to a judge last year asking for Qadar's release from prison.

The 60-year-old had asked for release in May on compassionate grounds during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In the letter signed by Malik and a different brother, the widow said her uncle would be welcome to stay with her as long as he needed. 

New York City widow Rubina Malik, 42, (seen leaving Brooklyn federal court in a file photo) has said her uncle Manzoor Qadar can move into her home when he is released from prison for the 1996 murder of her husband

New York City widow Rubina Malik, 42, (seen leaving Brooklyn federal court in a file photo) has said her uncle Manzoor Qadar can move into her home when he is released from prison for the 1996 murder of her husband

'If our uncle is released we would be more than welcome to accommodate him at our home in New York, for as long as he needs,' she wrote.

Malik also wrote that her husband's killer had showed 'love and affection' toward her, while making no mention of the 1996 slaying. 

The widow told the Daily News she has also forgiven her father for arranging her husband's murder and putting out a hit on her too.

She said they have 'a good relationship' now and had visited him several times in Pakistan since the 1996 slayings, most recently in 1996. 

Qadar was denied release by Brooklyn Federal Judge Allyne Ross but he reapplied in October on health grounds, citing pre-diabetes, heart issues and hypertension, and his wife's poor health back home in England.

Ross approved his release that time round, pointing to Malik's belief that 'justice has been served.' 

'It is well established that Mr. Qadar committed a serious and heinous crime,' Ross wrote in her decision, seen by the Daily News. 

'But it is relevant to note that Rubina, the person most closely affected by the murder at the heart of this case, feels justice has been served. 

'She supports Mr. Qadar's release and has offered to open her own home to him, despite his responsibility for her husband's death.' 

It is not clear when Qadar is due for release but he is expected to be deported to Pakistan rather than setting up home with his niece. 

Malik told the Daily News she has never been certain if her uncle was responsible for her husband's murder. 

Qadar was convicted in 2002 of gunning down Shuakat Parvez outside the home he shared with Malik in Astoria, Queens, in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Malik's father. Malik (left), Parvez (center) and family members in an undated image

Qadar was convicted in 2002 of gunning down Shuakat Parvez outside the home he shared with Malik in Astoria, Queens, in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Malik's father. Malik , Parvez and family members in an undated image

'I didn't know anything, who did it, who planned it or anything. They asked me in the trial did I feel like he did it. I said I don't know if he did it or not,' she said of the trial, where she testified. 

'I still don't know now who was responsible. The state never disclosed anything to me. They said it's circumstantial evidence. I don't have any closure of who did it or who's responsible,' Malik said.  

Qadar was found guilty of murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire in 2002 for the November 1996 murder.'

Parvez and Malik had secretly wed against her family's wishes.

Malik was then forced to marry Khurram Khan, according to court documents. 

Sometime after they married, Malik confided in him about Parvez, who was now living in the US.

Malik and Khurram Khan fled Malik's family and moved to the US, where Malik reunited with Parvez, the documents show. 

Malik's father and brother Omar Malik, who was also living in the US, conspired to kill Malik, Parvez and Khurram Khan, prosecutors said.

Qadar then flew from Manchester, England, to New York on November 15.

One week later, on November 22, Parvez was shot dead near his home in Queens. 

Witnesses saw Parvez being chased by a white station wagon with the passenger firing shots at him. 

Prosecutors said Qadar and Omar Malik were the only people inside the car.

Omar Malik fled to Pakistan after the murder and Qadar was the only person charged.

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