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A Pakistani man who allegedly filmed his brother strangling their sister to death has been arrested as part of the latest "honour" killing that has outraged the country, police said Sunday.e)..
Maria Bibi, 22, was killed overnight on March 17, allegedly by her brother Muhammad Faisal and in the presence of her father Abdul Sattar, near Toba Tek Singh town in the central-eastern province of Punjab..
A video filmed by the woman's other brother Shehbaz, and which has gone viral, appears to show Faisal strangling the girl on a bed in the family home while their father sat nearby..
Much of Pakistani society operates under a strict code of "honour", with women beholden to their male relatives over choices around education, employment and who they can marry..
Police said that Faisal, the killer, allegedly caught his sister talking on a video call with an unknown man on several occasions..
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