The father kills the teenage daughter after she refused to eliminate the Tiktok account, says Pakistan police

Pakistan police said on Friday a father shot at his daughter after she refused to eliminate her account in the popular application of Video Video exchange.

In the Muslim majority country, women can undergo violence by family members for not following strict rules on how to behave in public, even in online spaces.

“The girl’s father had asked her to eliminate her Tiktok account. In rejection, she killed her,” a police spokesman told the News.

According to a police report shared with News, the investigators said the father killed his 16 -year -old daughter on Tuesday “for honor.” He was subsequently arrested.

The victim’s family initially tried to “portray the murder as a suicide” according to the police of the city of Rawalpindi, where the attack occurred, next to the capital Islamabad.

Last month, a 17 -year -old girl and a Tiktok influence with hundreds of thousands of online followers were Killed at home by a man whose advances had refused.

Sana Yousaf had accumulated more than one million followers in social networks, including Tiktok, where he shared videos of his favorite coffees, skin care products and traditional attire.

Tiktok is very popular in Pakistan, partly due to its accessibility to a population with low levels of literacy.

Women have found audience and income in the application, which is rare in a country where less than a quarter of women participate in the formal economy.

However, only 30 percent of women in Pakistan have a smartphone compared to twice men (58 percent), the largest gap in the world, according to the 2025 Gender Gap mobile report.

Pakistani telecommunications authorities have repeatedly blocked or threatened to block the application about what it calls “immoral behavior”, in the midst of a violent reaction against LGBTQ and sexual content.

“Honor” murders in Pakistan

In the southwest Baluchistan, where the tribal law governs many rural areas, a man confessed to orchestrate the murder of his 14 -year -old daughter earlier this year by the Videos of Tiktok who said he committed his “honor.”

Much of the Pakistani society operates under a strict code of “honor”, with women in debt with their male relatives about the options on education, employment and who can marry.

Hundreds of women are Killed by men In Pakistan every year for allegedly violating this code.

Last year, a Pakistani man who allegedly filmed his brother strangling his sister until death was arrested as part of an alleged murder of “honor.”

In December 2023, the authorities arrested four people who allegedly He killed an 18 -year -old woman In the supposed name of “honor” after a photo of his sitting with a boyfriend, he went viral on social networks. Police said the photo had been manipulated and published in false social media accounts.

In 2022, the BBC reported that the brother of a social networks star was acquitted to kill her. He had been sentenced to life imprisonment after confessing the murder of 2016, saying that it was because the star had shaped the family ashamed.

In 2021, Noor Mukadam, 27, was beheaded by her pakistani-state boyfriendZahir Jaffer, after she rejected her marriage proposal in a case that caused a generalized anger. Jaffer was sentenced to death.

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