Qandeel Baloch, Facebook Star, Dead in Pakistani ‘Honor’ Killing

Police were also investigating Ms Baloch’s other brother, Muhammad Aslam, who is a junior army officer, Mr Ikram said. “She was bringing dishonor to our family”.

After being brutally murdered by her own brother, Qandeel Baloch’s funeral was held close to her family home in Dera Ghazi Khan (130 km away from Multan).

No help was provided and the Pakistan Interior Ministry has not commented on her death.

The blogger dared to show off her body and speak out about female empowerment in Pakistan, an especially conservative country. The trend refused to subside even in her death. Afghan News Agency on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook.

But her pictures and videos outraged religious conservatives who viewed her as a disgrace to the cultural values of Islam and Pakistan. His actions were cheered on social media.

A woman as great as Qandeel Baloch should always be remembered and this should be a distressingly grief for the world as gender violence should never be allowed to take place. “As women, we must stand up for each other”, she told her 758,000 followers on Facebook, days before her death.

Baloch, only 25, was strangled Friday at her family home in Multan in the Pakistani province of Punjab, reports say. I was asked by some people why you met Qandeel.

I was 17 years old when my parents forced an uneducated man on me. They had a son together. “I was determined either to kill myself or kill her”, he said.

Her former husband denies these claims. Her family, she asserted, had defended him. Thus, killing his sister was a better decision than killing himself. It appeared the two were together in a hotel room.

Mufti Qavi was removed from the committee that decides when Ramadan starts and ends following the allegations. Baloch felt the backlash on social media. As a result she acted as the breadwinner for her family.

“Apparently, it is an honour killing but further investigations will reveal the real motives behind this murder”, Ghazanfar said. BBC News reports that 1,100 women were killed in honor killings in Pakistan alone previous year, and these are just the reported numbers. In June, a father lit his daughter on fire because she eloped. He said it was “ridiculous” for him to be been included in the murder investigation when Waseem had already confessed to the crime. He covertly slipped her a sedative, then strangled her. However, her parents had stated that she was killed by her brother between 2 and 3 AM on the same night. In Pakistan, if a family officially forgives an honor killing, the state can not press charges.