Pakistani man remanded in police custody for killing US-born daughter over TikTok videos
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A Pakistani man suspected of killing his US-born 15-year-old daughter in an honor killing case appeared in a court in Quetta on Thursday.
According to the police, the girl apparently refused to stop sharing videos on TikTok.
The man, who was arrested on Wednesday, recently moved his family back to Pakistan from the United States.
The shooting happened on Tuesday in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, said Babar Baloch, a local police chief. He said the father of the teenager initially suggested that an unidentified gunman had killed his daughter, but after he was 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.
Baloch said a judge has allowed police to keep the two men in custody for 10 days during an investigation.
Honor killings are common in Pakistan where family members and relatives sometimes kill women who don’t follow local traditions and culture or decide to marry men of their own choice.