Islamabad, Jul 16: Pakistan's social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was killed allegedly by her brother in Multan in Punjab province, becoming the latest victim of "honour killings" that plague the country.
The 26-year-old actor-cum-model was killed in central district of Multan last night, police said today.
Police said apparently she was killed by her brother named Wasim, who has fled after the incident.
"She was suffocated to death by strangulation. It seems to be a case of honour killing but we are investigating it," district police chief Azhar Akram said.
Her real name was Fouzia Azeem but she chose Qandeel Baloch as her pseudonym after stepping into modelling.
She had received threats from her family to quit modeling and her provocative appearances on social media. Her brother had been threatening her over her Facebook posts and videos, said the police.
Three weeks ago, she had written to the interior minister, the director general of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) and the senior superintendent of Islamabad asking them to provide security to her, Dawn reported.
She had said her life is in danger and that she is being threatened via calls on her mobile number and that she did not have security measures installed in her home, the paper said.
Qandeel was media sensation and unbelievably bold and was also considered highly controversial. She shot to fame in Pakistan in 2014 after a video of her pouting for the camera.
She became famous through her tireless self-promotion and semi-nude "selfies" posted on social media and had amassed tens of thousands of followers.
She had expressed her desire many times to marry ex-cricketer and opposition politician Imran Khan.
Her controversial pictures recently led to the suspension of Mufti Qawi's membership from the Ruet-e-Hilal committee.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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Dear Naren . '' We dont just slit the throat in bakrid we do it on all ocassions . and we do slit the throat of those who slit the throat of innocent humans and anti India elements ....
Khalid bin waleed the great (RA) told the romans in reply to their mocking ''you Arabs dont have anything to eat ...so you looking for something to eat here '' he told '' we are thirsty of Blood and we heard Blood of romans are tasty''
so applied to here we are thirsty of sick minds and we heard that RSS has plenty of such...''so we are here ''
Naren,Fully secure women for islam,compare to hindu women there are less rape and kidnaping mussilms women.becouse they protect there self,dress code and all,kaamale kanige kaanudella haladine,nara satta naren alwa.heeeeeeeeeeeeeee
There is no voice for women in muslim community ...they train young kids to slit the throat of animals on bakrid day ..what else we can expect from them ..israel is right ...shoot to kill is the best medicine for islamic blood thirsty terrorism and look at CD..they are putting headline as if she committed mistake and indirectly justifying the act of wahabist muslims
Dear Friends Please don't be shock Urself for killed Pakistani model by his own borther that their family problem
we wil thk about us before we discuss about other country in INDIA MAN KILLED FOR EATING BEEF SLAGUTER BEEF ,
Shocking incident! Killed by own brother? RIP
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