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A antheral who had precocious brought his household backmost to Pakistan from the United States has confessed to shooting dormant his 15-year-old girl due to the fact that she had continued posting videos connected TikTok contempt his warnings.
The girl, a US national, had arrived successful her hometown of Quetta, successful Pakistan’s Balochistan province, with her household connected 15 January. She was allegedly changeable dormant by her begetter and uncle connected Tuesday. A justice has granted constabulary a 10-day remand for the 2 accused.
Senior constabulary authoritative Abad Baloch said the girl’s younger member was besides being questioned to find what had happened, arsenic the begetter and uncle had initially claimed she was killed extracurricular their location successful an aerial firing incident.
“We are investigating whether the begetter brought the miss to Pakistan with the sole volition of sidesplitting her owed to the tougher laws successful the United States,” Baloch said. The household had moved to the US 28 years ago.
This is not the archetypal lawsuit of a Pakistani miss calved and raised overseas falling unfortunate to an “honour killing” portion visiting the state oregon adjacent abroad.
Honour killings, peculiarly of women, stay predominant successful Pakistan, adjacent successful large cities specified arsenic Karachi. Last October, a antheral murdered his mother, sister, sister-in-law, and niece successful Karachi’s Lea Market aft they refused to halt making TikTok videos. He slit their throats successful their flat and was aboriginal arrested, having initially claimed helium was not astatine location erstwhile the killings occurred.
In different disturbing case, a antheral strangled his woman to decease successful beforehand of his parents portion a person recorded the murder. The video was aboriginal leaked connected societal media, starring to the apprehension of the antheral and his household successful Punjab.
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Honour killings are often carried retired based connected perceived notions of household dignity and shame, with adjacent couples who wed without household consent falling victim.
In 2024 alone, astatine slightest 346 women and 185 men person mislaid their lives to honour killings successful Pakistan. In 2023, the figures stood astatine 314 women and 176 men.
(With PTI inputs)
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