Wasim said that he strangled Baloch to death for posting controversial messages, photos and videos on social media.
A day after Pakistan's internet sensation and model Qandeel Baloch was choked to death by her brother in Multan city, the alleged accused Muhammad Wasim has been arrested on Sunday.
Confessing to the crime, Wasim said that he strangled Baloch to death for posting controversial messages, photos and videos on social media.
Waseem runs a mobile phone shop in the city.
The 26-year-old actor-cum-model was killed in central district of Multan, police said on Saturday. Police said that the accused Wasim had fled after the incident but was later nabbed.
-"She was suffocated to death by strangulation. It seems to be a case of honour killing but we are investigating it,-" district police chief Azhar Akram said.
After the autopsy, medics said that Baloch died of suffocation, but the final opinion on her death would only be issued after the result of chemical examination is out. Doctors are looking at all possibilities into Baloch's death and are also examining if she was given any kind of poisonous substance before being strangled to death.
“My daughter was innocent, we are innocent, we want justice, why was my daughter killed ” Baloch’s father Azeem Ahmad said.
Her real name was Fouzia Azeem but she chose the pseudonym Qandeel Baloch after stepping into modelling. She had received threats from her family to quit modelling and stop her provocative appearances on social media.
The controversial model's brother had been threatening her over Facebook posts and messages, police officials were quoted saying.
Fearing for her life, Qandeel had written to the interior minister, the senior superintendent of Islamabad and the director general of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) three weeks ago asking them to provide her security.
She had said her life was in danger and that she was being threatened via calls on her mobile number and that she did not have security measures installed in her home, the paper said. However, she did not get any help.
Qandeel was a media sensation, bold in her videos and considered quite controversial in the country. She shot to fame in Pakistan in 2014 after a video of her pouting for the camera. She became famous through her tireless self-promotion and suggestive -"selfies-" posted on social media and had amassed tens of thousands of followers.
Qandeel had taken social media by storm with her statement promising to strip if Pakistan won the T20 cricket match against India in March.
She had expressed her desire many times to marry ex-cricketer and opposition politician Imran Khan. Her controversial pictures recently led to the suspension of Mufti Qawi's membership from the Ruet-e-Hilal committee.
(This story originally appeared in the deccan Chronicle as may the case be)
