Overview
- The Additional District and Sessions Court in Quetta convicted Anwar‑ul‑Haq Rajput and his brother‑in‑law Muhammad Tayyab Bhatti and sentenced both to life imprisonment on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
- Prosecutors told the court the killing was premeditated and driven by the father's disapproval of his daughter's social‑media posts after he brought her from the United States to Pakistan.
- Police investigators say the men first claimed the girl had been shot by unidentified gunmen or a stray bullet but later confessions and evidence showed the story was fabricated.
- The court also fined each convict Rs200,000 and applied Pakistan's 2016 legal reforms that make life sentences mandatory for honour killings.
- The verdict has renewed public debate over protection for young female content creators, enforcement gaps that rights groups warn about, and whether courts and police will now better deter family‑ordered violence.