By Natasha Prince
Asma Firfirey listened quietly to the muffled voices on her cellphone, hearing the argument that would lead to the beheading of her youngest sister.
Last Thursday the body of Aasiya Hassan, 37, a Pakistani national who had been living in Buffalo in the US for eight years, was found in the offices of a television station where she worked with her husband.
Aasiya's husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, a Pakistani-American businessman, had turned himself in to the police and was arrested for the murder of his estranged wife.
The night she died, Aasiya had phoned her closest sibling, Firfirey, who lives in Elsies River. She did not speak, but left the cellphone on so that Firfirey would hear the commotion.
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Firfirey sat quietly. She listened and waited. She knew what was happening.
When the phone went off, Firfirey phoned a receptionist who worked at the American Islamic television station, Bridges TV, of which her sister's husband was the founder.
The receptionist reassured Firfirey that all was well, but she was not convinced.
She phoned the police in Buffalo and then her sister's lawyer - all of whom were convinced that Aasiya was safe.
At around 5am on Friday, Firfirey was told her sister was dead. Police have reportedly not yet uncovered the weapon used in the murder.
According to Buffalo-news.com, the arrested man is the chief executive of Bridges TV, launched in 2004 in the hopes of portraying Muslims in a better light under the slogan "connecting people through understanding".
He allegedly told the police on Thursday night where they could locate his wife's body.
The couple were in the process of divorcing.
The family said that Aasiya had an interdict against her husband, which ordered him out of the couple's house by February 6.
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