{"id":37337,"date":"2021-03-13T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37337"},"modified":"2021-03-13T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:33:50","slug":"young-pakistani-tiktok-star-takes-own-life-after-fan-rejects-marriage-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37337","title":{"rendered":"Young Pakistani TikTok star takes own life after \u2018fan\u2019 rejects marriage proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Shahzad Ahmad, who had over a million followers, had tried to commit suicide in the recent past but was saved.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>A Pakistani TikTok star from Peshawar city has committed suicide after a female fan rejected his marriage proposal, a media report said.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0-wp-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/i\/s\/i0.wp.com\/www.thekashmirmonitor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-16.jpg?w=730&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"730\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n<p><cite>Twenty-year-old Shahzad Ahmad, who had over a million followers on the Chinese video-sharing app, had tried to commit suicide in the recent past but was saved, a report said.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>\u201cHe was in love with a girl but her father turned down his marriage proposal repeatedly after which Shahzad was really depressed and he committed suicide,\u201d the victim\u2019s brother Sajjad said in a complaint he had filed.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>One of Shahzad\u2019s friend told local media: \u201cTwo years ago, he was approached by a girl who claimed to be a fan. This relation developed into a friendship soon but the girl was just a 16-year-old studying in school. <\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>\u201cHe immediately proposed her but his proposal was turned down on the basis of the girl\u2019s age.\u201d<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>Pakistan has once again banned TikTok, this time for allegedly peddling vulgarity and spreading objectionable content on its platform.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>The country banned the ByteDance-owned platform in October 2020 for a brief 10-day period for hosting \u201cimmoral\u201d and \u201cindecent\u201d videos.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>\u201cIn respectful compliance to the orders of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), PTA has issued directions to the service providers to immediately block access to the TikTok App. <\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>During the hearing of a case, the PHC has ordered for the blocking of App,\u201d the Pakistan telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a tweet late on Thursday.<\/cite><br \/>\n<cite>According to a report, Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan accused TikTok of hosting content \u201cunacceptable for Pakistani society.\u201d<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>Khan said the platform engaged in \u201cpeddling vulgarity\u201d and ordered the ban take effect immediately during a hearing on Thursday.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>TikTok said in a statement that it \u201cis built upon the foundation of creative expression, with strong safeguards in place to keep inappropriate content off the platform.\u201d<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>The app has been installed over 40 million times in Pakistan.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>Indo-Asian News Service<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahzad Ahmad, who had over a million followers, had tried to commit suicide in the recent past but was saved. A Pakistani TikTok star from Peshawar city has committed suicide after a female fan rejected his marriage proposal, a media report said. Twenty-year-old Shahzad Ahmad, who had over a million followers on the Chinese video-sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}