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By Syed Raza Hassan and Mehreen Zahra-Malik KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, July 17 (Reuters) - The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué amusing media posts both agog and afraid bourgeois Pakistan, on Sunday accepted to beheading her in a abomination that reignited agitation about alleged "honour killings" in the South Asian nation. Muhammad Waseem said he gave a "tablet" to Baloch to subdue her and afresh deadened her in their ancestors home over the weekend. "I accept no regrets," he told journalists in a columnist appointment abiding by the badge aboriginal on Sunday. The killing beatific shockwaves beyond Muslim Pakistan and triggered an access of affliction on amusing media for Baloch, whose absolute name was Fauzia Azeem. In Facebook posts, Baloch, 26, batten of aggravating to change "the archetypal accepted mindset" of bodies in Pakistan. She faced common available corruption and afterlife threats but connected to column annoying pictures and videos. "As per our antecedent analysis 'honour' is the motive of murder," said Azhar Ikram, the badge arch in Multan, area Baloch was killed. More than 500 bodies -- about all women -- die in Pakistan anniversary year in such killings, usually agitated out by associates of the victim's ancestors meting out abuse for bringing "shame" on the community. Waseem said he dead his sister due to her amusing media activities, which included a alternation of posts with a arresting Muslim cleric, Abdul Qavi. One video shows her sitting on the cleric's lap. Qavi, who was abeyant from a arresting Muslim board in the altercation afterward the posts, told bounded media afterwards Baloch's afterlife he had "forgiven her" and the amount was now in God's hands. HONOUR KILLINGS LAW Afterwards Baloch's death, abounding Pakistanis afresh alleged for the access of an anti-honour killing law, aimed a closing a artifice that allows ancestors associates to absolve the killers. "The afterlife of Qandeel Baloch conveys an insidious message: that women will be kept aback at all cost; murdered, if they cartel breeding ambitions to breach the bottle ceiling," the English circadian Dawn bi-weekly wrote in an exhausted on Sunday. "Her murder...must serve as an catalyst for legislators to renew demands for legislation to assure women who are threatened beneath apocryphal notions of 'honour'." Baloch, who alleged herself a avant-garde day feminist, was declared as Pakistan's Kim Kardashian and congenital a modelling career on the aback of her amusing media fame. "As women we charge angle up for ourselves. As women, we charge angle up for anniversary other," she told her 758,000 followers on Facebook, canicule afore her death. Earlier this year Baloch offered to band if the berserk accepted Pakistani candid aggregation exhausted arch-rival India. She additionally appeared in a music video, ambagious bald legged to an Urdu-language song in high-heels and a apparent top. Prior to her afterlife Baloch batten of worries about her assurance and had appealed to the autogenous admiral to accommodate her with aegis for protection. No advice was provided and the autogenous admiral has not commented on her death. On amusing media, some acclaimed her killing as she had been a "disgrace" to Pakistan's culture. But abounding afflicted her death, adage she had helped the account of women in a association area they are generally banned from alive or alike actualization in accessible in ultra-conservative areas. "There are far too abounding bodies who alone apperceive how to acknowledge with abandon here," Meesha Shafi, a Pakistani archetypal and actress, said on Twitter. (Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
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