He had her at hello.
Doomed mom Nazish Noorani met her future husband - and now accused killer - Kashif Parvaiz at a Pakistani festival in Brooklyn six years ago, a grieving cousin told the Daily News Friday."It was love at first sight for her," the cousin said of Noorani, who was buried Friday. "She seemed so happy. This guy began showering her with all these gifts. Gold bracelets. New cars. She thought it was a fairy tale."
Noorani's relatives were suspicious.
"We are all so protective of each other," said the cousin, who asked not to be identified. So the family met with Parvaiz at a Dunkin' Donuts near their homes in Boonton, N.J.
"We asked him what he does, where he has lived, how he is going to provide for my cousin," the cousin said.
An "evasive" Parvaiz told them he attended NYU, but couldn't produce an ID. "We knew he was full of it," the cousin said.
The next day, the cousin said, Parvaiz emailed them a photograph of his purported NYU identification card. It was a fake.
The cousin said he told Noorani Parvaiz was a fraud, but she refused to listen.
"She said, 'I'm going to marry him come hell or high water,'" the cousin said. "We found out later [they were] already married."
Noorani's family insisted on a proper ceremony at the Knights of Columbus hall across from her parents' house in Boonton - near where she was gunned down Tuesday night.
When Parvaiz moved to Boston last year - he said he was getting a doctorate from Harvard - Noorani stayed in Flatbush to raise their two young sons.
Noorani found out Parvaiz was cheating on her three months ago, when she found a MySpace photo of him with another woman, the cousin said.
"Kashif told her that he lived in a dorm room at Harvard," the cousin said. Parvaiz was really living in East Boston; there's no record he attended the Ivy League school.
More than 1,000 mourners held a wrenching funeral for the slain mom in Boonton, NJ, where much of her family lives. Norman Y. Lono for News
"Nazish was such a beautiful girl, but Kashif wanted to keep her at arms length," the cousin said. "Kashif wanted to live the lifestyle of a single man."
The cousin said he regrets not trying harder to get Noorani to leave him.
"I wish I would have done more," he said.