According to CNN, in his confession, Azeem stated that he killed his sister because “girls are born to stay home”. When a 19-year-old schoolteacher refused to marry a man twice her age, she too was burned alive.
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A police team earlier reached Qandeel’s native Shah Sadardin area in Multan and recorded statements of her relatives.
The video of Mufti Qavi and Baloch became controversial after it attracted attention across the country leading to suspension of Qavi from the Ruet-i-Hilal Committee as well as the National Ulema Mushaikh Council of Pakistan. They released her birth name and details about her marriage and child, details that Qandeel had always kept private, presumably due to security concerns. Recently she had stirred up a fresh controversy following a post that showed her alongside a Muslim cleric.
He said that even though Baloch was the main breadwinner for the family, he slipped her sedatives the night before and then strangled her in her sleep. Protests have been held across the country, and prominent Pakistani feminists have spoke to condemn her murder. “Pray for her instead of abusing as we all have to die one day”.
Wasim’s lack of remorse is telling of the level of tolerance of these so-called honour killings in Pakistan. “She supported all of us, including my son who killed her”, Dawn news online quoted Azeem as saying. Avami Workers’ Party spokesperson Tooba Syed told Broadly that the feminist communist group is organizing a protest in Islamabad later this afternoon, after joining similar protests in Lahore. “What other options does a woman have in a society like ours?”
Section 305, maintains the wali will be the heirs of the victim, but will exclude the accused or convict in case of qatl-i-amd (wilful murder) if committed in the name or on the pretext of honour. “The culture around shame and taming of women’s sexuality is global”.
The protesters demanded exemplary punishment for the killer, action by the media regulatory authority against TV channels who assassinated her character and posthumously disrespected her by broadcasting images of her body.
A protest in Karachi by Girls at Dhabas.
Separately, Hina Butt also filed a resolution in the Notice Branch of the Punjab Assembly Secretariat on the same day in which she demanded her party’s government in Islamabad to take notice of the Indian suppression in held Kashmir and highlight the issue at global forums to resolve the dispute. It makes for grim reading.
Almost 1,100 women were killed in Pakistan past year by relatives who believed they had dishonoured their families, the country’s independent Human Rights Commission (HRC) says.
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Waseem was also in contact with Qandeel Baloch’s former husband, Ashiq Hussain, the mother alleges.
