Despite all the recent drama surrounding the judiciary and the legal community, it seems the Qandeel Baloch case is nearing an end. The year kicked off with Saudi Arabia handing over a suspect in Qandeel’s murder case, her brother Muzaffar Iqbal.<\/p>\n
The late-model Qandeel Baloch’s brother, was an absconding suspect in her murder. A few months ago her other brother Waseem Azeem was sentenced to life in prison for her murder.<\/p>\n
In Pakistan, a life sentence means 25 years in jail. With good behavior, that time can be cut short a few years.<\/p>\n
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Case Closed? Qandeel Baloch’s Brother Gets Life Sentence For Murder<\/a><\/p>\n Arab media broke the news that Saudi authorities were handing over Qandeel Baloch’s brother Muzzafar Iqbal to Pakistan. Muzzafar Iqbal had been arrested by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n He was being held in an Interpol cell in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pakistan had requested Saudi Arabia to arrest Muzzafar Iqbal back in 2016. He was residing in the KSA at the time and was accused of aiding and abetting in Baloch’s murder.<\/p>\n Previously in October 2019, another absconding suspect in Qandeel Baloch’s murder case, her brother Arif was caught with the help of Interpol from Saudi Arabia. He was transferred to Multan following his arrest.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Court Decides Not to Free Qandeel Baloch’s Killers<\/a><\/p>\n In 2016, Qandeel’s brother Waseem Azeem strangled her to death at her residence in Punjab. Their father, Muhammad Azeem Baloch, had lodged a murder case against his son Waseem, accomplice Haq Nawaz, his other sons Aslam Shaheen, Arif, Mufti Abdul Qavi, Haq Nawaz and Abdul Basit.<\/p>\n The other six suspects in the case have been acquitted including Mufti Qavi. Even though Qandeel Baloch\u2019s parents hold Mufti Qavi responsible for their daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Later the acquittal of Aslam Shaheen, Arif, Zafar Hussain, Mufti Abdul Qavi, Haq Nawaz and Abdul Basit was challenged in the Lahore High Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite all the recent drama surrounding the judiciary and the legal community, it seems the Qandeel Baloch case is nearing an end. The year kicked off with Saudi Arabia handing over a suspect in Qandeel’s murder case, her brother Muzaffar Iqbal. The late-model Qandeel Baloch’s brother, was an absconding suspect in her murder. A few months ago her other brother […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":234822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,1298,2199],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-culture","9":"category-featured"},"wps_subtitle":"Her brother Muzaffar Iqbal was arrested by Interpol","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/qandeel-baloch-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/qandeel-baloch-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/qandeel-baloch.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Crime","Culture","Featured"],"title_text":"Saudi Arabia Hands Over Absconder in Qandeel Baloch\u2019s Murder","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,1298,2199&exclude=244485","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244485"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=244485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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