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Explained: The life and death of Qandeel Baloch

A selfie from the Facebook page of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, who was strangled (File/Qandeel Baloch/Facebook/via Reuters)

In 2016, the honour killing of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch had caused an uproar in Pakistan and drawn strong media attention both at home and abroad.

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Sanam Maher, a Karachi-based journalist, who has covered politics, religious minorities, and women, gives a detailed account of Qandeel’s life in A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch.

Baloch, 26 at the time of her murder, had earned both fame and vitriol on social media. Born Fauzia Azeem in a poor family in rural Pakistan, she faced an abusive husband before fleeing from her marriage.

Baloch then began to chart a career as a media celebrity, and was often dubbed as the ‘Kim Kardashian’ of Pakistan.

In 2016, she was drugged and then strangled to death by her brother at their parents’ house, who believed that Baloch had bro Qandeel Baloch - Wikipedia KUGI