The funeral prayers of model and social media star Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered by her younger brother, were offered in her ancestral village Shah Saddardin in Dera Ghazi Khan district on Sunday.
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“There were other issues as well.Like the Maulvi issue”, he said, in an apparent reference to a controversy surrounding Qandeel’s selfies with Mufti Abdul Qavi, which hit the headlines last month.
Despite that, she continued to be outspoken in her beliefs, saying in one recent Facebook post that “At least worldwide media can see what i am up to”. I killed her around 11.30pm on Friday night when everyone else had gone to bed.
The city police chief said the authorities will charge Waseem with honour killing and seek “maximum punishment”.
He said the police were working on catching his friends, and will only be able to determine their involvement after speaking to them.
Qandeel’s father, Muhammad Azeem said in a First Information Report that his daughter came to Multan from Karachi to celebrate Eid with the family.
Police said apparently she was killed by her brother named Wasim, who has fled after the incident.
Hundreds of women are murdered each year in Pakistan, often at the hands of their relatives, in so-called honor killings.
Model and social media sensation Qandeel Baloch, who was also known as Known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian”.
He said his sons were unhappy over “her achievements” and turned against her even though she supported them, the paper added. She became a household name in the Islamic Republic in 2014 for posting bold pictures, videos or comments, which attracted criticism as well as support.
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With 750,000 followers on Facebook, she called herself a “modern day feminist” and was recently writing posts about challenging old practices of Pakistani society.
