Qandeel Baloch murder: Mufti Qavi receives questionnaire

MULTAN: Mufti Abdul Qavi did not present before police on Friday to give his written statement, following which the investigation team reached the cleric’s residence and handed him a 14-point questionnaire in Qandeel Baloch murder case.

The list of questions given to the cleric inquired about his last contact with the social media star.

It was learnt that Qavi would provide his written response after consultation with his lawyer.

Mufti Qavi addressed a press conference in Multan shortly after receiving the questionnaire.

He said that whichever institution would contact him for investigation in the model’s murder case, he would cooperate with it.

The cleric said that he would send a handwritten response to the list of questions.

‘I will issue a copy of my response to media as well,’ said Mufti Abdul Qavi.

Qavi said that he only met Qandeel once, adding that it was easy contacting and meeting him.  

‘I said to her in the hotel that people would badger us, let’s walk separately,’ Qavi said while referring to the day Qandeel Baloch met him and shared a couple of selfies with him on the internet.

Qavi added that the day her murder took place he was in Lahore.

Police had said that it would record Qavi’s statement on Friday as it widened the investigation scope of the social media star’s murder.  Police on Thursday had gained access to mobile data of Mufti Abdul Qavi, which showed that the last contact between Qandeel Baloch and him took place on June 22.

The mother of slain model had also claimed that Mufti Qavi had provoked her son Waseem into murdering her daughter.

Qandeel’s brother Muhammad Waseem had admitted to strangling her to death for the "honour of the family".