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KARACHI: A man has allegedly killed his wife in the Landhi’s Sherpao Colony for uploading videos on popular Chinese-owned Video app TikTok over objections.
According to the reports, the accused identified as Ishaq killed his wife and mother-in-law over TikTok videos in Karachi. Police said he had asked his wife named Ramsha not to go out without his permission and post videos on TikTok.
Ramsha used to make TikTok videos but her husband did not like it. Police said Rimsha was living at her parents’ house after fighting with her husband. Police have recorded the statements of the eyewitnesses and raids are being carried out to arrest the suspect. A case has also been registered against Ishaq.
In April, Pakistan banned TikTok after a court order citing “unethical and immoral content” on the platform. This is not the first time TikTok was banned in the country. Pakistan had blocked TikTok temporarily in October 2020 for a few days, and the ban was lifted after TikTok’s management assured the Pakistani government they would block all accounts “repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality.”
The country has a patchy history with social media content, similar to its neighboring nation, India. The latter has already blocked TikTok following a border skirmish with China in the region of Ladakh. In 2020, the PTA had asked YouTube to block all videos that the regulator considered “objectionable” from the platform.
