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A father in Pakistan killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he thought-about to be inappropriate movies on the social media app TikTok, police mentioned on Thursday.
The person, mentioned to be in his 50s, just lately introduced his household again from the U.S. to settle within the southwestern Pakistani metropolis of Quetta, native police chief Babar Baloch, mentioned.
The daddy, now in custody, confessed to having shot his daughter earlier this week after she refused to decorate extra modestly and cease importing what the household thought-about to be “indecent” movies on TikTok, Baloch mentioned.
Police are treating the incident as a case of so-called honour killing.
Round 1,000 ladies are killed in Pakistan by shut kinfolk, fathers, brothers, and sons on the pretext of saving household honour, in keeping with the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan (HRCP).
The killers usually escape punishment due to a controversial Islamic clause in legal guidelines that permits kinfolk of the sufferer to pardon the perpetrator, rights physique Amnesty Worldwide mentioned.
Pakistan accredited a regulation in 2016 to partially cast off the controversial clause, however that has not proved sufficient to cease the follow, in keeping with the HRCP.
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