Pakistani media reported that her brother Wasem Azeem was angry with Qandeel about her online photos and sexy poses and had threatened to kill her if she did not stop.
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Police in Pakistan have arrested the brother of murdered Pakistani social media media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, from Dera Ghazi Khan on late Saturday night.
BBC reports Azeem stating that: She wasn’t aware I was killing her. I gave her a tablet and then strangled her.
CPO Multan Azhar Akram told reporters that Qandeel was staying at her parent’s home when the incident occurred.
Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, was little known until recently, when she offended many conservatives by posting pictures of herself with Mufti Qavi, a prominent cleric. “He escaped after strangling Qandeel”.
Qandeel was dubbed Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian for her provocative photos.
His sons were unhappy over “her achievements” and turned against her even though she supported them, he said.
Hundreds of women are murdered each year in Pakistan, often at the hands of their relatives, in so-called honor killings.
Azeem further said that he, along with his wife, went to sleep on the rooftop while Qandeel slept in a room where Waseem strangled her to death as he was against her working in showbiz.
“I am a drug addict but I was in my senses when I murdered her and I accept it with pride”.
Her brother told police that her videos were “objectionable” and “intolerable” and that he had no regrets over killing her.
The 25 year old Baloch was from the Punjabi town of Kot Addu and had risen to fame due to the increasingly political, videos that she had posted on Facebook.
Qandeel was a media sensation, bold in her videos and considered quite controversial in the country.
He thinks that when he was accused, he forgave her on media and social media.
She had expressed her desire many times to marry ex-cricketer and opposition politician Imran Khan.
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While he was being quizzed by cops as to why he would’ve committed such an atrocity, The Dawn claims he pointed to a picture she took with the cleric, Mufti Abdul Qavi.
