<figure id="attachment_3018223" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3018223" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3018223" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/110ffc78-pakistan-flag-epa-250325.webp" alt="Pakistan flag EPA 250325" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3018223" class="wp-caption-text">Violence against women is pervasive in Pakistan, according to its human rights commission. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police on Tuesday said a 17-year-old TikTok star was shot dead by a man who had repeatedly contacted her online.
Sana Yousaf, who turned 17 last week and had more than a million followers across her social media accounts, was killed at her home in the capital Islamabad yesterday evening.
Police have arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of her murder who spent hours loitering outside her home.
&#8220;It was a case of repeated rejections. The boy was trying to reach out to her time and again,&#8221; Islamabad police chief Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi said during a news conference.
&#8220;It was a gruesome and cold-blooded murder,&#8221; Rizvi added.
Yousaf had more than 800,000 followers on TikTok, a wildly popular platform in Pakistan, where she posted lip-sync videos, skincare tips, and promotional content for beauty products.
The last video posted on her account was hours before her murder, in which she was seen cutting a cake for her birthday.
&#8220;Rest in Peace&#8221; and &#8220;Justice for Sana&#8221;, read some comments under the video.
Violence against women is pervasive in Pakistan according to the country&#8217;s Human Rights Commission, and cases of women being attacked after rejecting marriage proposals are not uncommon.
In 2021, 27-year-old Noor Mukadam was beheaded by her Pakistani-American boyfriend, Zahir Jaffer, after she rejected his marriage proposal in a case that sparked widespread anger.
In 2016, Khadija Siddiqui survived being stabbed 23 times by a jilted ex-boyfriend.

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Pakistani TikTok star shot dead after ‘rejecting’ man

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