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| Qandeel Baloch: Pakistan social media celebrity 'killed by brother' | |
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| Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been killed by her brother in an apparent 'honour killing' in the province of Punjab, police say. | |
| Ms Baloch, 26, recently caused controversy by posting controversial pictures of herself on social media, including one with her alongside a Muslim cleric. | |
| Police say she was strangled to death. | |
| Cases of women being killed for 'dishonouring' their family are commonplace in Pakistan. | |
| Qandeel Baloch became a household name for posting bold, sometimes raunchy, photographs, video and comments. | |
| Conservatives condemned her behaviour when she recently made headlines after posting pictures of herself with a prominent cleric, Mufti Qavi. | |
| Police say the killing took place on Friday night. | |
| "The brother was also there last night and the family told us that he strangled her to death," police official Azhar Akram told the AFP news agency. | |
| Police said the brother had not been arrested and was on the run. | |
| Hundreds of women are murdered every year in Pakistan in so-called honour killing cases. | |
| Ms Baloch rose to fame in Pakistan in 2014 when a video of her pouting at the camera and asking "How em looking?" went viral. | |
| While many younger people hailed her liberal views she was also subjected to frequent misogynist abuse online. |