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Issam Ahmed
AFP's Pakistan, Afghanistan correspondent
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I wish I'd sent that message

Wednesday 20 July 2016

ISLAMABAD- The call came late Saturday morning, waking me up on my day off.

Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan's best known female celebrities who had shot to fame for her suggestive selfies and no-damns-given attitude, had been killed -- strangled by her brother, who would later tell police he found his sister's behaviour “intolerable”.

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