Qandeel Baloch is dead because we hate women who don't conform

This is what we know about Qandeel Baloch: She liked the water, she swam. In her videos and photos, she wore the same clothes over a...

This is what we know about Qandeel Baloch:

She liked the water, she swam. In her videos and photos, she wore the same clothes over and over — a white bathrobe, a pink polka-dot dress. She had a sense of humour.

Her real name was Fauzia Azeem. She was born into a perfectly ordinary, socially conservative family. She married young, had a son. She walked away from that marriage when it didn't work out. She wanted, in her own words, "to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself."

Her Facebook persona, Qandeel Baloch, was followed by practically a million people. She posted pictures on social media that Pakistan deemed 'bold,' a term in the nation's vernacular that has come to signify a certain kind of sexual openness.

All these facts are now overwritten by what happened in the last few hours.

What we now know about Qandeel Baloch is that she is dead, according to police, killed at the hands of a brother who felt he'd been 'dishonoured.'

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At this newspaper, we ran our first story on Qandeel Baloch in October 2015. When we first saw her on social media she was pouting and posing, imploring her audience to answer the question "How I'm looking?" We were amused and intrigued. "Who is this girl?" we wondered.

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