Pak FB star killed ‘by brother’

A Pakistani social media celebrity whose selfies polarised the deeply conservative Muslim country has been murdered by her brother in a suspected honour killing, officials said yesterday, prompting shock and revulsion, reports AFP from Lahore. Qandeel Baloch, held up by many of the country’s youth for her willingness to break social taboos but condemned and reviled by traditional elements, was strangled near the city of Multan, police said.
“Qandeel Baloch has been killed, she was strangled to death by her brother, apparently it was an incident of honour killing,” Sultan Azam, senior police officer in Multan, told AFP.
Baloch, believed to be in her twenties, had travelled with her family from the city of Karachi to Muzzafarabad village in central Punjab province for the recent Eid holiday.
Police were informed by her family that the killing took place on Friday night.

 

Pak FB star killed by brother

A Pakistani social media celebrity whose selfies polarised the deeply conservative Muslim country has been murdered by her brother in a suspected honour killing, officials said yesterday, prompting shock and revulsion, reports AFP from Lahore. Qandeel Baloch, held up by many of the countrys youth for her willingness to break social taboos but condemned and reviled by traditional elements, was strangled near the city of Multan, police said. Qandeel Baloch has been killed, she was strangled to death by her brother, apparently it was an incident of honour killing, Sultan Azam, senior police officer in Multan, told AFP. Baloch, believed to be in her twenties, had travelled with her family from the city of Karachi to Muzzafarabad village in central Punjab province for the recent Eid holiday. Police were informed by her family that the killing took place on Friday night.