Quetta, Pakistan:
A man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan of the United States on Wednesday confessed to having shot his teenage daughter, motivated by his disapproval of his Tiktok content, said Pakistani police.
The shooting occurred in a street in the southwest city of Quetta on Tuesday. The suspect, Anwar Ul-Haq, initially said that unidentified armed men fired and killed their daughter born in the United States 15 years before confessing with the crime, said police officer Babar Baloch.
“Our research so far discovered that the family had an objection to their clothing, lifestyle and social meeting,” said another police investigator, Zohaib Mohsin. “We have his phone. He is blocked,” he told Reuters. “We are investigating all aspects, including honor murder.”
The family had recently returned to the province of Baluchistan in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, a nation with conservative social norms, which lived in the United States for about 25 years, Baloch said.
The suspect has American citizenship, said the officer. He said Haq had told her that her daughter began to create “objectable” content on the Tiktok social networks platform when she lived in the United States.
He told police that she continued sharing videos on the platform after returning to Pakistan. Baloch said that the brother of the main suspect had also been arrested in relation to the murder.
Police said they had accused Haq the murder. They did not offer evidence of Haq’s American citizenship, except for the suspect’s own testimony and refused to say whether the United States embassy had been informed of the incident.
His family refused to respond to the request for Reuters comments.
More than 54 million people use Tiktok in Pakistan, a 241 million nation. The government has blocked the application to share videos several times in recent years about the moderation of content.
Islamabad often disagrees with what calls “obscene content” with the social networks platform, which has recently begun to comply with Pakistan’s requests to eliminate some content.
More than 1,000 women are killed every year in Pakistan at the hands of the community or relatives for the damage perceived to the “honor”, according to the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
That could involve escape, publish content of social networks, fraternize with men or any other infraction against conservative values related to women.
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