Pakistani Facebook celebrity choked by his own brother – NRK

– Qandeel Baloch have been killed, she was strangled by his brother. It suggests that it was an honor killing, said Sultan Azam, police officer in Multan in Punjab province, told AFP.

26 years old Qandeel Baloch have been killed after an argument with his brother Friday night. She was a famous personality in social media in Pakistan, and his brother should have been upset over photos and videos she shared. He is not arrested and is according to police on the run.

Balcoh was in Multan to visit their parents, and celebrated id with family. The parents say her body was not discovered until Saturday morning. They have been arrested, writes Express Tribune.

Pakistan Kim Kardashian

Baloch, whose real name Fouzia Azeem, has been named Pakistan’s response to Kim Kardashian, writes BBC. She became known through posting videos, photos and comments to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as many in Pakistan viewed as controversial and daring. In one of her most famous videos she promised to strip if Pakistan beat India in cricket. She also modeled and had recently released a song.

Baloch had many fans and was featured as a liberal icon laundry limits. She also used celebrity status to speak about the role of women in society, and said she would change the “typical Pakistani orthodox way of thinking.”

– Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad, she said in one of her last interviews.

Threats

” HONOUR “: it indicates that there was an honor killing, police said.

Photo: Stringer / Reuters

but Baloch also received much criticism, proportionality and threats; allegedly also from his own family. Express Tribune quoted family sources as saying that her brothers asked her to stop being model. The brother who killed her should also have threatened her.

In June, she released a video with the Islamic scholar Mufti Abdul Qavi. Baloch said she received death threats after the stunt. She went from Punjab to Karachi because she feared for its safety. Just three weeks ago she wrote to including interior minister and asked for security measures, but did not answer.

– I know I will not get protection here or feel secure here, so I’ve decided to move abroad after id, said she Express Tribune.

the organization Pakistan Human Rights Commission estimates that over 3,000 women were victims of so-called honor killings between 2008 and 2014, writes the Guardian.

Manger Pakistanis today expressed its outrage at the killing of Baloch Qandeel in social media. Others have called it “good news” and shared declarations of support for the killer.