A PAKISTANI court has denied bail to a man accused of murdering a Bradford woman in the country's latest so-called "honour killing."

Samia Shahid's father, Muhammad Shahid, and ex-husband, Muhammad Shakeel, are accused of killing her in July because she had divorced Shakeel and married a Shiite Muslim.

A police investigation concluded that her father stood guard while Shakeel raped her, before the two men strangled her to death.

Najful Hussain Shah, the lawyer for Ms Shahid's widower Syed Mukhtar Kazam, says the court rejected bail for Shahid today.

It has not yet ruled on Shakeel's request for bail.

The death of 28-year-old Ms Shahid is suspected to be the latest reported incident of so-called "honour killings" in Pakistan, where nearly 1,000 women are murdered every year for violating conservative norms on love, marriage and public behaviour.

Police have said the killing was a "premeditated, cold-blooded murder" and a government-ordered police inquiry has recommended that her ex-husband and her father be tried on charges of rape and murder.

Ms Shahid, from Manningham, Bradford, was buried in eastern Pakistan in July after her family declared she had died of a heart attack.

But an inquiry was ordered by the Pakistan government after her second husband, Mr Kazam, publicly accused her family of killing her because they opposed her decision to divorce her first husband in 2014 and marry him.

The investigation concluded that she was strangled to death, and that her father had stood guard while her ex-husband raped her. After that, they killed her together, the police say.

The investigation has found that a forensic and DNA test was a perfect match, confirming the rape.

Ms Shahid married her first husband in February 2012 but stayed only briefly in Pakistan before returning to England where she obtained a divorce two years later.

After that, she married her second husband and moved with him to Dubai. Ms Shahid's family never accepted her second marriage.

Ms Shahid's mother and younger sister, both also British nationals, are wanted by Pakistani police on allegations of abetting her murder. The inquiry found they got her to agree to a week-long visit to Pakistan earlier this summer, claiming her father was gravely ill.

The two women left Pakistan shortly before the arrests and Pakistani police are now seeking their extradition from the UK.