Cousin strangled Qandeel, I grabbed her arms: Waseem
Elder brother telephoned from Saudi Arabia and taunted, says Waseem
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Slain Facebook star, Qandeel Baloch’s younger brother underwent polygraph test on Saturday during which he stated that his cousin strangled her to death while he held her arms.
Waseem, Baloch’s murderer has stated during the test that he gave her sleeping pills before assisting his cousin in committing the crime.
He said that his elder brother who lives in Saudi Arabia telephoned him and taunted over ‘not doing anything’ when their sister’s allegedly dubious video with Mufti Abdul Qawi, suspended member of Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee surfaced.
Waseem was arrested a day after Baloch’s body was found in Multan house on July 16 where she had moved from Karachi for Eid holidays with the family.
The murderer owned up to committing the crime and said that he didn’t feel any remorse as it was done for the honour of the family.
In an interview to a British media outlet, Baloch’s parents have said that they would not pardon Waseem off the crime. He sat with them for dinner on the night he murdered his sister and none was given any idea of what he had in his mind, they added.
Anwar Bibi said that Waseem had intoxicated her and his father at night and when she went to wake Baloch up in the morning she was dead.
Muhammad Azeem, father of the slain divorcee said that she used to take care of the family like a son.
It was reported after her murder that Baloch used to provide financial support to her family, even her younger brother who killed her.
It was another killing for so-called honour in the country where around a hundred women are either burnt, strangled or shot to death to reestablish ‘honour’ of the family after they do something that allegedly brings shame to family’s name.
In this case, Baloch rose to fame after sharing videos on Facebook in which she talked about variety of topics including some that only inquired the viewers how she was looking but caught notice of the nation for her provocative behavior.
Before the murder, she found herself amidst another controversy when her pictures with Mufti Qawi saw light of the day.
Mufti Qawi, who was subsequently suspended from his post, received flak for meeting Baloch in a house in Karachi during his visit to the city.
Baloch’s three marriages which were not known to the public were revealed days before she died. She was married in 2008 to a local hailing from Kot Addu and had a child with him before the couple divorced in 2010.
Another man from Peshawar claimed to have been married to her some 13 years ago after she eloped with him. Shahid Iqbal, a tailor by profession also told the media that she was married to another man before him.
Baloch never claimed custody of her son and when asked by Dunya News she said that she could not keep him.
The murdered social media celebrity reignited a debate over lack of law against ‘honour killing’ in the country eventually leading daughter of the premier, Maryam Nawaz Sharif to announce that a statute is days away from enactment.
Some sections of the society held vigil in different cities to pay tribute to Baloch who according to them was on way to become a woman rights activist with where her Facebook posts were heading.
She spoke about women rights and how they are snubbed in a Pakistani society, they said.
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