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 own 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
'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
