RAHIM YAR KHAN: Social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was laid to rest on Sunday in her ancestral village near Dera Ghazi Khan town of Punjab, Samaa reported.
Earlier, her funeral prayers were offered in Shah Sadar-ud-Din area near D.G Khan were a good number of her relatives attended the namaz-e-janaza.
The actress and model was strangled to death in her house by her brother Wasim, who was picked by police late night.Baloch, believed to be in her twenties and whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, had travelled with her family to Muzzafarabad village in central Punjab province for the recent Eid holiday. She was killed there Friday, police said.
"My daughter was innocent, we are innocent, we want justice, why was my daughter killed?" Baloch's father Azeem Ahmad told reporters.
Police later registered a murder case against her brother based on her father's written complaint, in which he accused his son of killing his daughter for honour because "his son wanted her to quit showbiz".
Earlier, her funeral prayers were offered in Shah Sadar-ud-Din area near D.G Khan were a good number of her relatives attended the namaz-e-janaza.
The actress and model was strangled to death in her house by her brother Wasim, who was picked by police late night.Baloch, believed to be in her twenties and whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, had travelled with her family to Muzzafarabad village in central Punjab province for the recent Eid holiday. She was killed there Friday, police said.
"My daughter was innocent, we are innocent, we want justice, why was my daughter killed?" Baloch's father Azeem Ahmad told reporters.
Police later registered a murder case against her brother based on her father's written complaint, in which he accused his son of killing his daughter for honour because "his son wanted her to quit showbiz".
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