The Rawalpindi police said Friday that a father shot his daughter in shots after she refused to eliminate her account in the popular application of Video Tiktok.
“The girl’s father had asked her to eliminate her Tiktok account. When she refused, she killed her,” said a police spokesman AFP.
According to a police report shared with AFPThe researchers said the father killed his 16 -year -old daughter on Tuesday “for honor.” He was subsequently arrested.
The victim’s family initially tried to “portray the murder as a suicide” according to the police of the city of Rawalpindi, where the attack occurred, next to the capital Islamabad.
Last month, a 17 -year -old girl and a Tiktok influence with hundreds of thousands of online followers were killed at home by a man whose advances had refused.
Sana Yousaf had accumulated more than one million followers in social networks, including Tiktok, where he shared videos of his favorite coffees, skin care products and traditional attire.
Tiktok is very popular in Pakistan, partly due to its accessibility to a population with low levels of literacy.
Women have found audience and income in the application, which is rare in a country where less than a quarter of women participate in the formal economy.
However, only 30% of women in Pakistan have a smartphone compared to twice men (58%), the largest gap in the world, according to the 2025 Gender Gap mobile report.
Pakistani telecommunications authorities have repeatedly blocked or threatened to block the application about what it calls “immoral behavior”, in the midst of a violent reaction against sexual content.
In Baluchistan, where the tribal law governs many rural areas, a man confessed to orchestrate the murder of his 14 -year -old daughter earlier this year for the Videos of Tiktok who said he committed his “honor.”
