Police say the brother of a social media celebrity in Pakistan confessed to killing her after she stirred controversy by posting racy photos and posting with a prominent muslim cleric, saying she had besmirched the family name.
Waseem Azeem, Who was accompanied by police, confessed in a news conference on Saturday to drugging and strangling his sister, 26-year-old qandeel baloch. He said through her risque videos and social media posts"she brought dishonour to the Baloch name," the local newspaper Dawn reported.
Baloch died Firday when one of her six brothers strangled her to death as she slept in the family's home in the province of Punjab, police said.
"Apparently the lady died of suffocation, but final opinion on her death would be possible only after report of chemical examination comes,"said Mushtaq Ahmed, who was among the team that conducted Baloch's autopsy."She might have been given some poisonous substance before being strangled."
Multan Polic chief Akram Azhar said authorities will charge Azeem with carrying out an "honor killing."They will seek the"maximum punishment,"he added.
Murder carries a potential death sentence, and the honor killing charge will make azeem ineligible for a family pardon.
Baloch, Whose real name was Fauzia Azeem,shot to fame and notoriety with a series of social media postings that would be tame by Western standards but were deeply scandalous by conservative Pakistani societal norms. she cultivated an outrageous public persona, recently promising to perform a public striptease if the Pakistani cricket won a major tournament.
Blaoch had a large following of more than 700,000 people on her official Facebook page. She posted recently she was "trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't wanna come out of their shells of false beliefs and old partices."
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