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Qandeel murder case: Mufti Abdul Qavi has gone underground

August 15, 2016

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Mufti Abdul Qavi who has been nominated in the Qandeel Baloch murder case has gone into hiding, police said Monday (today).

According to the reports, police claimed that Mufti Qavi had gone underground and his phone numbers were also unresponsive.

Police stated that a team had been formed to arrest the cleric, who has been nominated in the murder case of the slain internet sensation Qandeel Baloch.

Mufti Abdul Qavi had been nominated for the murder of Qandeel Baloch on the orders of the judiciary.

However, Qavi in a press conference held last month denied being involved in the murder. However, Qandeel’s mother in a press statement claimed that the cleric instigated his son Waseem to kill Qandeel as she was ruining the family’s honour.

On the other hand, suspects arrested in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, Waseem, Haq Nawaz and Basit will be presented before the court today in Multan.

Qandeel Baloch was a controversial model and social media personality who was famous for her bold Facebook posts. She was murdered last month allegedly by her brother Waseem, who confessed to the crime and claimed that he had murdered his sister for honour.

Waseem had named his cousin Haq Nawaz as an accomplice in the murder while he had also disclosed that it was suspect Basit’s car which they used to flee after killing Qandeel. Police had questioned Mufti Abdul Qavi in connection with the slain model’s murder case since she had been killed a couple of days after their pictures on social media surfaced in which Baloch and the cleric could be seen together.

Police had sent a questionnaire to Mufti Qavi which contained inquiries regarding the murder. Qavi had claimed that after receiving his answers, police had given him a clean chit. The claim had been denied by Multan police.

Prior to her death Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, spoke of worries about her safety and had appealed to the interior ministry to provide her with security for protection.