Quetta – A Pakistani man suspected of killing his US-born 15-year-old daughter in a so-called honour killing after she apparently refused to stop sharing videos on TikTok appeared in court on Thursday in the southwestern city of Quetta, police said.
The man, who was arrested on Wednesday, had recently moved his family back to Pakistan from the US, according to the police.
The shooting happened on Tuesday in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, said Babar Baloch, a local police chief. He stated that the teenager’s father initially claimed that an unidentified gunman had killed his daughter, but after being taken into custody for questioning, he confessed to the crime.
Baloch said the man’s brother-in-law was also arrested in connection with the killing, and that both men had apparently objected to the girl’s sharing of “objectionable” content on TikTok, a social media platform used by 54 million people in Pakistan.
A judge has allowed the police to keep the two men in custody for 10 days during the investigation.
So-called honour killings are common in Pakistan, where family members sometimes kill women who do not follow local traditions and culture or choose to marry of their own free will.
Waziristan Shootout
Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest, triggering an intense shootout in which two soldiers and six militants were killed, the military said.
The raid was carried out on Wednesday in North Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the military.
The military confirmed that a major was among the two soldiers killed.