Summary The mobile phone was dispatched to the company concerned for retrieval of data
MULTAN (Dunya News) – Mobile phone and passport of slain Facebook star, Qandeel Baloch have been recovered from possession of her cousin named Haq Nawaz who is accused in her murder case, reported Saturday.
The mobile phone was dispatched to the company concerned for retrieval of data.
Meanwhile, two other persons were made part of investigations on plea of Baloch’s father. The two persons made part of the case are murdered social media celebrity’s elder brother, Arif and a relative of the family.
Earlier, culprit in the case Waseem, younger brother of late Baloch underwent polygraph test in Lahore during which he stated that he grabbed her arms while his cousin, Haq Nawaz strangled her to death.
She was killed in her house in Multan on July 16.
Waseem and Haq Nawaz fled the crime scene late that night but were arrested within days following the murder.
Police also involved Mufti Abdul Qawwi in investigations owing to the controversy that surfaced a couple of months ago involving him and the Baloch.
Baloch’s pictures had surfaced with Qawwi in a house in Karachi where as told by the slain star, she had gone to meet him on his request.
A clergyman’s pictures with a social media star whose claim to fame was viral Facebook videos dubbed bold and provocative by many weren’t received well by the conservatives in the country.
The act led to Mufti Qawwi’s suspension from his seat in Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee.
Qawwi was sent a questionnaire by Multan police with questions about his life and ‘meetings’ with Baloch which he submitted without any delay claiming innocence.
It is worth mentioning here that Waseem had revealed that his brother named Arif who resides in Saudi Arabia had taunted him for ‘not doing anything’ when their sister was involved in a controversy as if her bold videos weren’t enough to bring shame to the family.
The murder prompted premier’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif to go on record to say that a law against ‘honour killings’ would soon be introduced.
Pakistan still lacks a law that will hold murderers accountable for their crime involving reclamation of ‘honour’ of the family.
They walk free as their families and kith and kin of the murdered women pardon them.
Baloch’s case is first of its kind in so-called honour killings incidents when state became a complainant thus depriving parents of slain Facebook star to pardon Waseem, Haq Nawaz and others accused.
