Pakistani police said Thursday that a father killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded a video they deemed inappropriate on the social media app TikTok.
Local police chief Babar Baloch said the man, said to be in his 50s, had recently brought his family back from the United States and settled in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.
The father, who is currently in custody, confessed to shooting his daughter earlier this week because she refused to dress more modestly and would not stop posting videos on TikTok that the family deemed “offensive,” Baloch said.
Police are treating the case as a so-called honor killing.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, around 1,000 women are killed in Pakistan by close relatives, fathers, brothers, or sons in the name of protecting family honor.
According to human rights group Amnesty International, in most cases, murderers go unpunished because of a controversial provision in Islamic law that allows the victim’s relatives to pardon the perpetrator.
Pakistan passed a law in 2016 that partially repealed the controversial provision, but HRCP says the law alone was not enough to put an end to the practice.
