Islamabad, Pakistan (AHN)-A court official says Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into the case of a man who spent three years in jail for a murder that never happened.

The woman Malik Taj Mohammad was convicted of kidnapping and killing was arrested for theft two years ago and is serving a jail sentence in the eastern city of Gujarat.

Three men and a woman are being sought over the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was allegedly strangled to stop him from wedding one of the killers' women in an arranged marriage.

The marriage had been ordered in compensation for the kidnapping of the boy's 15-year-old sister. Mohammad Asif was killed on Sunday, five months after his sister was abducted from their home.

After a woman in Pakistan found out that her husband wanted to leave her for a fourth wife, she took matters into her own hands by beheading him, chopping up his body and then dumping the parts in a sewerage drain.

Local Police say Majeeda Khatoon killed her husband, a well-off building contractor, while he was asleep, and cut his body into seven pieces with the help of two male relatives in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, a suburb on the outskirts of Karachi, according to Reuters.

A Pakistani couple who were held in jail for five years for marrying without the consent of the woman's father were ordered by a judge to be released on Sunday.

Sodi, 23, and her husband, Abdul Hakeem Kashkeli, were released after a hearing in the southern city of Hyderabad.

Danish police found more than $1 million worth of heroin that had been smuggled into the country from Pakistan in the hollowed-out blades of 25 antique sword replicas.

The police seized the drugs after raiding the apartment of a British man who had died earlier from a drug overdose along with a woman of unknown nationality in a hotel room in Copenhagen.