A man who recently moved his family to the United States in Pakistan admitted to having killed his teenage daughter because he disappeared his Tiktok videos, police said at the BBC.
Anwar Ul-Haq was accused of murder after admitting to having shot his daughter Hira on Tuesday in the southwest city of Quetta. He first told investigators that unidentified men were behind the shooting.
The father, who has American citizenship, said he found the posts of his “reprehensible” daughter.
Police said they were looking at all angles, including the possibility of a murder of honor, which is not uncommon in the country.
Hundreds of people – Most of them – die each year in so -called Honorary Killings in Pakistan, according to human rights groups. These murders are generally carried out by relatives who say that they act to defend the honor of their family.
In the case of Hira Anwar, who is between 13 and 14 years old, a police spokesman said that his family “had an objection to his dressing, his lifestyle and his social gathering”.
The family lived in the United States for 25 years and Hira began publishing content on Tiktok even before their family returned to Pakistan.
Investigators said they were in possession on his phone, who is locked.
His father’s brother-in-law was also arrested as part of the murder, police said.
If it is judged as a murder of honor and that they are found guilty, men will be condemned to an imprisonment with compulsory perpetuity – a change brought to the law by the government of Pakistan in 2016. Previously, they could avoid a prison sentence if they were forgiven by the victim’s family.
In 2023, an Italian court inflicted a Pakistani couple on perpetuity sentences for having killed their 18 -year -old daughter because she refused an arranged marriage.
The previous year, the brother of the Pakistani social media Qandeel Baloch was acquitted to have murdered her on appeal. He had previously been sentenced to life prison after admitting the murder of 2016, saying it was because the star had shame the family.
