Qandeel Baloch, often referred to as the Pakistani equivalent of Rakhi Sawant when she was alive, suffered a death most brutal on Saturday morning when she was killed by her brother.
Said to be a case of honour killing, initial reports seemed to suggest that she had been shot, although it began to emerge later in the day that she had actually been strangled by her brother Waseem Azeem.
An Al Jazeera report, however, refers to the initial post-mortem of Qandeel Baloch’s body which shows that the 26-year-old’s nose and mouth “had been pinned shut before she died, blocking off her airways.” This revelation was made by Nabila Ghazzanfar, a Punjab Police spokeswoman, and contradicts the earlier report of her having been strangled.
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