ISLAMABAD – Pakistani girl commits suicide due blackmailing on social media.
A girl in Badin, a remote district in Sindh province, has committed suicideby consuming poison after getting upset with social media blackmailing, asreported by *Geo News.*
The deceased girl’s family found a letter in her room which revealed thatshe was being blackmailed by a boy and his friends over edited pictures onsocial media platforms. The three boys also received Rs. 50,000 from thegirl by threatening her to post her pictures on social media.
According to the local media reports, the three suspects had also sent anedited picture to her fiancé, following which her engagement was calledoff. It is sad to hear to such negative news coming from remote areas ofPakistan whereby sexual harassment on social media leads to the loss oflife and relations.
According to the Badin city police, the suspects are on the run and policeis putting its foremost effort to arrest the culprits. The police officialshave not disclosed the identity of the suspects while the deceased’s familyhas revealed the names of the three suspects to police that were written inthe letter.
People, particularly women in Pakistan, face frequent abuse and harassmenton social media. According to a report by the *Digital Rights Foundation* (DRF)in May 2017, 40% of women in the country faced various forms of harassmenton social media.