The Rawal Pindi police said on Friday that a father shot her daughter after she refused to delete her account on the popular video sharing app Tiktok.
“The girl’s father had asked her to delete her Tiktok account. On rejection he killed her,” a police spokesman said AFP.
According to a police report that was shared with AFPInvestigators said the father killed his 16-year-old daughter on Tuesday “to honor”. He was subsequently arrested.
The victim’s family initially tried to “portray the murder as a suicide” according to police in the city of Rawalpindi, where the attack happened next to the capital Islamabad.
Last month, a 17-year-old girl and tiktok influencer with hundreds of thousands of online followers was killed at home by a man whose progress she had refused.
Sana Yousaf had collected more than a million followers in social media accounts, including Tiktok, where she shared videos of her favorite cafes, skincare products and traditional clothing.
Tiktok is wildly popular in Pakistan, partly because of its availability to a population of low literacy levels.
Women have found both audience and income on the app, which is rarely in a country where fewer than a quarter of women participate in the formal economy.
However, only 30% of women in Pakistan own a smartphone compared to twice as many men (58%), the largest gap in the world, according to the mobile gender report from 2025.
Pakistani telecommunications authorities have repeatedly blocked or threatened to block the app over what it calls “immoral behavior”, in the midst of setbacks against sexual content.
In Balochistan, where Stammelov controls many rural areas, a man confessed to orchestrate the murder of his 14-year-old daughter earlier this year over Tiktok videos, which he said compromised her “honor.”
