Islamabad: Pakistan’s controversial model Qandeel Baloch was murdered by her younger brother in Multan city on Saturday, police aid. A police official said Baloch was strangled to death by her brother in an apparent incident of honour killing. The brother fled after the incident, the police officer said, adding he was upset at the ‘disrespect’ she had caused to the family.
Baloch, believed to be in her twenties and whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, had travelled with her family to Muzzafarabad village in central Punjab province for the recent Id holiday. She was killed there, police said.
The social media star had addressed a news conference earlier this month in which she had demanded the Home Ministry provide her security as she was receiving death threats. The department had refused to entertain the request.
“My daughter was innocent, we are innocent, we want justice, why was my daughter killed?” Baloch’s father Azeem Ahmad said. A murder case against the brother.
