The brother of the Pakistan social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, Mohammad Waseem was arrested by Multan police in on Saturday. He was arrested by the police on the charge of murdering her to protect family honour, a suspected case of honour killing that activists say has become an epidemic in the country. Waseem confessed in a press conference that he had drugged and strangled his sister to death.
“I have no regret on what I did as she brought dishonour to the Baloch name,” he said adding, “She wasn’t aware I was killing her. I gave her a tablet and then strangled her,” he was quoted as saying. Waseem said he killed his sister Qandeel, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, for posting controversial pictures and videos on Facebook.
Qandeel was in Multan to visit her parents as her father had been unwell, and spent Eid with her family. Her brother, identified by police as Waseem, went to meet her at night and suffocated her with a pillow when she was asleep. Qandeel’s father Azeem told police his sons Aslam Shaheen and Waseem were responsible for their sister’s death. But Waseem said his brother had nothing to do with the killing.
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