"There is no honour in killing in the name of honour," Mr Sharif said about Baloch's murder, according to his daughter, Maryam. (AFP photo)ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities have barred the family of a murdered social media celebrity from legally "forgiving" their son for strangling her, sources said, in a rare stand against the so-called practice of "honour killings". Baloch built a modelling career on the back of her social media fame and was the family breadwinner. Mr Waseem told media he had "no regrets" about killing his sister as she violated the family's honour by her social media pictures, including "selfie" photographs with prominent Muslim cleric Abdul Qavi. More than 500 people, almost all of them women, die in honour killings in Pakistan every year, usually at the hands of relatives acting over a perception shame has been brought on the family.

Source: Bangkok Post July 19, 2016 06:00 UTC