Father in Pakistan kills US-born teenage daughter over TikTok videos
Jan 31, 2025
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 31: A father in Pakistan killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he considered to be inappropriate videos on the social media app TikTok, police said on Thursday.
The man, said to be in his 50s, recently brought his family back from the US to settle in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, local police chief Babar Baloch said.
The father, now in custody, confessed to having shot his daughter earlier this week after she refused to stop dressing more modestly and stop uploading what the family considered to be "indecent" videos on TikTok, Baloch said.
Police are treating the incident as a case of so-called honour killing. Around 1,000 women are killed in Pakistan by close relatives - fathers, brothers and sons - on the pretext of saving family honour, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
The killers in most cases escape punishment because of a controversial Islamic clause in laws that allows relatives of the victim to pardon the perpetrator, rights body Amnesty International said. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
