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Sahar Daftary

Asian model jumps 150ft to her death after discovering lover was married

Shareordie: A model plunged 150ft to her death from a luxury apartment block after splitting up with her married boyfriend. Sahar Daftary, 24, fell from the 12th floor of a building in Salford Quays, Manchester, over the weekend. The former Face of Asia winner is understood to have been to the flat to collect her belongings after her relationship broke down with her boyfriend - a property developer who has not been named - over the summer. The boyfriend was arrested and interviewed by police before being bailed. Her friend, Afrah Sami, said: ‘We are all shocked and devastated. Sahar was very beautiful - she loved life and she was always the centre of the party. ‘She met him (the boyfriend) in Manchester and they were very happy. Then she won the Face of Asia competition and got several big contracts. She seemed to have the world at her feet. But she discovered that he was married and became very unhappy. The stress changed her and she had stopped eating properly. When she came up on Saturday she was very distracted and preoccupied with collecting her things from the apartment, but he didn’t want to see her.’ Police confirmed that the boyfriend rang 999 saying he needed help. He gave a home address and the address in Salford but there was confusion as to where the man was >>>

22-Dec-2008
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the_truth1066

Digusting behaviour... by the Jamil dude, not even a man...

by the_truth1066 on

What a standard Pakis action.

They are always like this. First to run to prayer then the first out to drink, sleep around and do drugs.

Any women, especially Afghan or Irani for that matter should keep well away from these dirty men with only 1 thought in there mind.

He was a smart sleezy cookie, marries here in islamic law to seal the Nikha but not under UK law so can have his way then divorce so at least it's "legal" in the eyes of God.

An Afghani boy was killed as he fell in love with a Pakis girl but her relatives didn't like it so killed him and fled to the hell-hole known as Pakistan. Afghani men should find this SOB and torture him.


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u people are absolutly

by Anonymous x (not verified) on

u people are absolutly disgusting, nobody knows what happened so dont act like you do. Stop talking about her asif its going to change something. people being rude about her, are simply jelous at how incredibly beautiful she was... get a life u total losers :) dont hate cuz ur not anything compared to her


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You do not know her!

by shame on you (not verified) on

Just to confirm, Sahar was Afghani
I can not believe at these shocking messages! Some of you have no respect whats so ever and i really wonder what kinda of families you have been brought up in.
It does not matter what race she was, her race/religion/ethnicity had nothing to do with this tragic loss. Did you know Sahar on a personal level? was she ever a friend of yours? Im sure Not! So how can any of u judge her? she was married to that monster and he did treat her like crap. She would not have jumped. The police have not yet confirmed anything, so what gives any of you the right to assume you know what happened up there?! What made you all detectives?!
she was loved by many and touched the lives of everyone she met! She was not weak, she was the strongest person you could ever met.
You people have no shame, have you not got a sister, a mother, a daughter, a best friend, a cousin, a niece, an aunty?!! How would you feel if it was your loved ones picture right now and people were talkin about her like you are!
Have some respect and get your facts right before any of you talk!

Rest In Peace beautiful...


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Sahar Daftary – beautiful, young Afghan model commits “suicide”?

by Miss.Brat (not verified) on

I can even begin to describe how upset I was upon hearing the news of the passing of this beautiful young woman. I wish condescends to her family and loved ones. It was the passing of Sahar – and the responses to this – which prompted me to go online and get some things off my chest. First of all, I have read numerous disturbing forums and posts on other sites by Muslims who are condemning Sahar for committing suicide, and at the same time excusing the monster (I won’t even dignify him by stating his name) that was her ‘husband’ stating that it is permissible to have three wives in Islam. This tragedy is not about the Islamic right to polygamy – but rather the fact that this man had hidden his other wife and children from Sahar – making the marriage fraudulent by Islamic standards. Sahar had no idea that he was married three times and had a miscarriage upon finding out the truth.

Secondly, the monster was a possessive man who would not let Sahar go – according to friends and family. When the poor girl made it clear that she was not to be his concubine – he released a pornographic video of her with him – thus ruining her name in the eyes of the Islamic community and making her unsuitable for marriage in the Islamic community. He had a history of violent behavior which the police were aware of. Sahar also made a sexual assault complaint with the British police, which she did not follow through with after the split. Apparently, he also had people following her. So she was not the love-struck lover, by all accounts she was trying to ESCAPE from him.

Thirdly, let’s not judge Sahar – for the alleged “suicide” – if that is in fact the case. From everything I have read in is my belief that Sahar did not commit suicide. She had just enrolled herself in college, bough an expensive plan ticket to Dubai with plans to go celebrate her birthday there with family and friends and from all accounts was a strong and religious girl. It just doesn’t add up – she went to her ex’s home to pack up her belongings. Keep it mind that the break up and miscarriage happened two months before her death. Why wait for two months? Why make future plans with no intentions to carry them out? And finally, why would the person who is trying to end the relationship take their own life? Like I said he had a history of violence and was charged with assault on another female. He was unwilling to let her go. When she moved her stuff out of his house – it signaled the end and maybe he couldn’t handle it. He should be the one who gets all the hatred and venom on the forums – not the victim! I hope the police open an investigation and I truly hope that someone starts a victim’s fund for her poor widowed mother.

Her nationality is irrelevant, she spoke Farsi and we Iranaians AND Afghans have to demand justice for her!


amjad

Rules and Faith

by amjad on

I dont know the rules in UK, but as a moslim, one has the permission to marry more than one wife.

Falling in love is a pure and most precious feeling, it can happen at any age, time or point in life.

However, we have to be mature enough to distinguesh between LOVE or LUST... and there are ways to fulfill both, as long as we recognise responsibilities. Even in a strict religion like Islam, there are guidelines for such situations. In anycase, Lets all pray to God for forgiveness and bless the poor soul.

   positive & practical


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ppl this is Iranian.com so

by Anonymous131 (not verified) on

ppl this is Iranian.com
so if you can't respect plz get the hell out specialy you

"Iranians 4ever stealing people's heirtage culture even people
by Stranger (not verified) on Mon Dec 29, 2008 08:32 AM PST"


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Iranians 4ever stealing people's heirtage culture even people

by Stranger (not verified) on

Her nationality is irrelevant but the fact that Iranians yet again claim anyone who has a shred of fortune fame or beauty as Iranian when they are in fact not is just typical of the egomanical sick racist stupid people Iranians are. If she was ugly fat or anything similar you Iranians would smear her as a an Afghan this or a Hindu that or an Aarab khar. That is how you egomanical Iranian racists are.


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Someone's Daughter... Someone's Sister... Someone's Life...

by Ayub (not verified) on

You may wonder why we suffer in this world. After reading all the previous comments, it is very obvious why we suffer. How can we respect the living if we cannot respect the dead ? People are adamant to tarnish Sahar’s name and deliver the most hurtful insults saying she was "this" and "that" and so on. Sahar has passed away, her family have been destroyed. The life of everyone around Sahar shattered into a million pieces. The young life of a beautiful woman terminated. For whatever reason, it is not up to us to judge. When we are all perfect and can reveal all our secrets in front of the world, maybe then we should strip away others dignity and leave them bare and humiliated. It is especially distasteful when the person you are humiliating has passed away. Do you not think that falling from 150ft is enough ? Did you stop to think that paramedics were working on Sahar trying to save her life after the tragic fall ? Did it not occur to you that she may not have passed out before hitting the ground ? Do you not stop to think that not only one, but two post-mortem’s were performed on Sahar ? Do you think that death will never reach you ? Do you think you are safe from death ? Are you so heartless that you refuse to stop and think that the family and friends will be reading this too ? If you cannot stop to think about someone else’s pain, just remember that we too one day will have to die. So please all those who have spoken such hurtful words, shame on you, shame on you. I would appreciate if you can demonstrate some respect and share some human qualities. Since I have read this news, I have not slept at all. The face of Sahar haunts me. I seem to be drawn to her. The beauty of this is that I never knew her, never saw her, yet even in death, she has bought tears to my eyes and left an empty feeling in my heart. It feels as if something inside me has died too.


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She was not rejected..he

by Gul (not verified) on

She was not rejected..he was!

I mean how would you cope if you found out you were pregnant and your husband actually was already married and had kids. Sahar had a miscarriage after finding out. Seriously have none of you who label her as weak even experienced anything in life?! you cant have otherwise you would know what pain she went through.

Also there is a second post mortem examination to be finished as the first one has not proved that she committed sucicide yet all of you have decied after reading one article that you know it all.


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I cant belive what i am

by Gul (not verified) on

I cant belive what i am reading. I dont know why on earth people who obviously dont know her and making rubbish up. Does it give you some sort of kick?

For a start no she did NOT know he was married.
NO she didnt do drink , drugs or sex tapes.
Her modelling only lasted a very short time and she left it behind to pursue her studies. She was actually quite religious but just cos some dumb so and so's like to label her former husband her boyfriend and her death suicide then somehow she isnt genuine in your opinion.

He was not her boyfriend they made nikkah but by the time they had come to legally register the marriage she found out he was actually already married and had kids so she went to the mosque and divorced him.
He was crazy he pestered her all the time not the other way around.

I hope none of you ever end up having a family member or friend that gets married only to find out they have been lied to. Imagine how your name gets dragged though mud even though you had done nothing wrong. I mean look at this page full of people and their lies.

To think that you question her belief yet look at yourself backbiting VILE!


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PLEASE

by senior (not verified) on

Why are people so ruthless nowadays?

Please show some respect and let her family grieve in peace...

She is DEAD so shut up and stop writing S*** on here.....


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The facts

by Abdul mutafakir Perkins (not verified) on

The truth is sahar was the kind of muslim girl gone bad that is becoming prevalent amongst the money hungry and lazy new immigrants to the UK from places like afghanistan, albania, kosovo,romania, kurdistan etc.

We are told she "would never have committed suicide cos it was against her religious beleifs" yet she openly made the centre of her life modelling and making sex tapes, drinking alcohol and partying and adultery, which are also all "against her religious beleifs".
As for the so called older pakistani she fell for, like a typical mirpuree lower class wanabee, he is dog ugly, and the claims of being a "property developer"..well they all say that dont they....turns out he was some £42,000 a year council employed administrator. Him and his scummy mirpurri lower class cheating type always claim to be "property developers". Plus that flat in manchester was hardly luxury.Its salford, not monte cartlo or new york or tokyo or 200 other more glamorous cities, where this so called "luxury flat" wouldnt qualify as a bedsit.


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idiots.

by a friend (not verified) on

to the comment below, you are speaking like you KNEW her when its plain obvious all you are relying on is idle gossip from bigger idiots in your circle. whether she smoked, drank, is afghan or iranian are topics completely beside the point. a person's death should not be the subject of their past lifestyle. you speak as if you believe yourselves to be perfect. no one is, but yet for some reason, you condemn her once she has passed, but not yourself whilst you are still alive and breathing. and it is just a real shame that you pride yourselves on being of a certain heritage, nationality or ethnicity, but yet you bring shame more than anything to yourselves and others. it is only for God to determine these things that you are wasting your time gossiping about. i only hope what truly happened that day can be uncovered so as to give peace of mind to her family and friends. Sahar was a beautiful girl, inside and out and to the likes of people on here who did not know her, you do not even deserve to speak her name. your opinions are of no value to anyone, least of all Sahar.

may you rest in peace angel x


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Religious girl?? i dont think so

by Nosheen (not verified) on

I would like to make a few things clear to all of sahars so called best friends.

first of all sahar knew rashid was married before she did the nikkah with him in december. Rashids wife rang her in october 2 months before she married him!!!! she DID NOT care he was married with 2 children...she called his wife a psyco!! her sisters, mother all knew everything.. She was just so impressed by rashids money and wealth, obviously coming from a council estate in London meeting a man like Rashid was her dream come true! she brought everything upon herself. she was a nasty horrrible girl, her own friends have admitted she couldnt leave him alone. any decent islamic religious muslim girl would never do such a low thing as modelling where the whole world can see your body in revealing clothes.
also are people aware she drank and did cocaine??? NO im sure they are not, so really not so islamic after all...
anyway at the end of the day no muslim would be so weak and commit suicide there is NO evidence suggesting it was anything else she was a weak individual firstly who couldnt leave this married man alone and secondly who took her own life!


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Anonymous 12349

by Anonyed (not verified) on

You are crazy.Why are bringing his poor girl name here. May your stupid god offers you a little bit of brain.


hendooneh

Anonymous 12349

by hendooneh on

you have major issues....take a xanax or two


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SHE IS AFGHANI NOT IRANIAN

by Anonymous 12349 (not verified) on

SHE was an Afghani. She got married to a Pakistani. She was a Sunni not a Shiite.
It is really annoying when Iranian.com without a shred of evidence decides to label this pretty woman an Iranian. I'm not sure they would do that if she wasn't pretty. But anyways, my heart goes out to her family. I personally blame Javid J for this intentional misleading of news- labeling her an iranian. and I wish that hs own daughter Mahdieh commits suicide after she comes to learn how big her daddy turned out to be. Over 30 years in United States and Javid couldn't do shit. Any other iranian would have built an empire by now. But poor Mahdied has to bemoan her luck, that in Iran she had to suffer, then comes to United States only to suffer more. Her daddy can't even offer her any financial support. Meantime, Javid J can continue to think about how smart he is to finally learn there is no GOD while so many contnue to believe in such Bull shit like God. Javid's personl heroes lke Rchard Dawkin atleast made millions selling books, so did others like Christopher Hitchens. then you have other believers in god who became billionares yet do as they please without any inhibitions. This must be driving Javid crazy. So until Mahdieh commis suicide Nature permitting, hope Javid J does not again put an afghani woman under Iranian of the day.


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Afghan? Moghol Face? Pure bs! stop discriminatin

by Sepehr Sepasi (not verified) on

for Nanaz:

if u r an iranian like me u probably are less persian and pure than afghans, in fact only a small percentage of afghans are HAZARAZ and have moghol face, iranians have far more mongolian blood than any other country in that region! we have baluchistan (full of baluchi and pashtun people mixed with mongolians ) khorasan was mongols favorite setrapi for a long time and even western parts of iran are mongolized as much as eastern parts! so dont try to ask their purity! they can do the same by calling an arab! we all know that lebense are arabs with blue and green eyes so even if u r white skin u can still be arab! stop descriminating people base on their face and leave this poor woman soul alone

there are researches showing iranian population after the mongolian invasion was reduced from 2 million to 250,000 how do u think we are 70 million now? mongolians? arabs? Azaris? Kurds? we are all mixed!


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Race doesnt mean anything...

by Sepehr Sepasi (not verified) on

Hey Forogh Hakimzada! well your nationality is afghan! whats your ethnicity? Farsiwan? means persian and is an iranian subgroup! Tajik? a word for eastern iranian people or old parthian people who ruled the iranian platue for a centuary! Pashtun? another indo-iranian ethnicity! well on text book your ethnicity is iranian in whatever way you put it! on emotional side! if you think u r better than other persian speakers call urself whatever u want! me i'm iranian, and that means my ancestors came from whatever part of iranian platue including ariana (old afghanistan) or maybe tajikistan and...! and for that MMB! no u r not more open minded cause ur family ran away from iran or immigrated from iran to us! u r smarter or more open minded cause u choose to be! it doesnt have anything with ur background! ethnicity or race! learn to be "khaaki" and down to earth and dont act like atoosa the queen of persia cause u r not! god bless her soul, and respect to all of my afghani, irani, tajiki brothers from all over the greater iran.


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Her Boy Friend is Pakistani

by Belushi (not verified) on

He is a property dealer (business man). I doubt I think he has lot of black money because he always paid everything in cash. He is 10 years older than Sahar. He even made and posted a sex tape with Sahar in internet. Not sure they were married that time or not but He is a sick person no doubt, poor girl.


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Re: If this is true, no wonder she commited suicide

by Forogh Hakimzada (not verified) on

First of all your comment about a poor dead woman is incredibly poor taste. No one should use the dead for this sort of ignorant and xenophobic comments. But if you are so proud of your iranian heritage so convinced of its righteousness, then I'm sure you wouldn't mind abandoning this ultimate of Iranian characters, namely the posting yellow-bellied and cowardly comments anonymously. MY NAME IS FOROGH HAKIMZADA, I AM AN AFGHAN AND YOU ARE A COWARD!!!


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Please people!

by USA --California (not verified) on

Who cares if she is Afghan or Iranian. No one should say that, "It is the persons race that makes them to do something like that." All of you with those comments need to think it could be you or your family members who do the same thing and then what would you say, was it your race or ethnicity that made the person jump.

Let her be in peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get a LIFE people.


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Who's th;e loser? 'River......

by who's the loser? (not verified) on

you are something else, for real. You sound like you've grown your inner self REAL strong, like a stone. You have no sympathy for anyone but your precariously balanced "self". And btw you know about as much about psychology as a cereal box does...with all due respect...you're cruel.

Happy holidays.


hendooneh

iranian and afghan are

by hendooneh on

iranian and afghan are nationalities..not ethnicities


javaneh29

For crying out loud people

by javaneh29 on

I am really shocked to see that this poor girls ethnicity, her state of mind and life is being described here as it has been below,

Her ethnicity has nothing to do with her sad death , So what if she was Afgani or iranian or both, or from any other background, Does it mean its not so important or news worthy because she was afgani? Shame, REALLY SHAME.

Im sure she herself or her family and loved ones would not want the ins and outs of her life discussed here. If we are going to talk about respect, then respect that. Respect their loss.

Whatever happened to this poor young woman is and I repeat all 'SPECULATION' at this point in time and until the police have concluded their investigations, we wont know what happened and no one has the right at this point in time to accuse anyone of anything. Be careful what you say so publically.  It may come back to bite you.

Even the death of this beautiful young woman is not a 'sacred' issue here. Its pityful.

Javaneh


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REST IN PEACE YOU BEAUTIFUL

by lolo (not verified) on

REST IN PEACE YOU BEAUTIFUL ANGEL IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER X


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for all of u out their plz

by khan (not verified) on

for all of u out their plz look at your selves first b4 pointing ur fingers at that poor girl . lag sharam okae...


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She was mentally weak, she

by memyselfI (not verified) on

She was mentally weak, she had suicidal thoughts before and even acted upon them when she once took an overdose....The guy involved was in love with her, she found out he was married and had a child with another on the way even before Sahar agreed to marry....she wanted stability but she actually was crying out for HELP....

After the guy involved realised that he actually couldn't leave his wife and kids he parted from Sahar and they got divorced.....She should have got him out of her mind and heart right then and never looked back......but she was weak....she thought life goes on and tried to make it go on but she couldn't.....

The innocent party are the wife and kids, my heart goes out to Sahar and her family, may she rest now in peace and also i have sympathy for the guy as he will always think 'what if'!!!!.....


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Not IRANIAN

by Farhad1965 (not verified) on

She was not IRANIAN. The newpaper report says she is an Afghani.

//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic...


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You say u were Sahar's best

by justsumguy (not verified) on

You say u were Sahar's best friend but you obviously didnt know her that well cos u dont know the facts - or she didnt deem u close enuf to tell you.
The fact is that she always suspected he was married and had even seen his son before they had their ceremony. He may not have been entirely honest with her re his circumstances but she wanted to be with him regardless.
She did not want nor did she demand a talaak - that was done on his wifes insistance when his wife (the true innocent party) found out about sahar. He didnt make her life hell - he loved her, but circumstances (which are too long to go into) would not allow them to be together.
Altho ppl say she went to the apartment to pik up cloths the fact is that her whole motivation for coming to m/c was to try an see him and the fashion show was a convenient excuse.
if u truly knew her then u would kno that she was obsessed with him.
He didnt want to see her but she threatened to turn up at his door.
when he did see her she was insisting on him leaving his wife immediately, gettin a police escort to go to his matrimonial home and getting his things and going back to london with her. she had also insisted on him goin to the mosque and annuling the talaak he had givn her. they had even arranged to see the mosque's kari at 9.30 that same night. He then decided that he cudnt go thru with it and she probably had a moment of madness and jumpd off the balcony.

Even without the insinuations u make, things are difficult enuf - especially for him. for a long long time he will be beating himself up about that night, wether he cud have stopd her, shud he have said this, or not said that etc. then ther is the fact that he saw the immediate aftermath that will haunt him forever. all this and then the suggestions ppl like u r making just exagerate a tragic situation. im sorry for the loss of your friend but u need to realise that nobody was closr to sahar than he was. so let him grieve in peace.