Waseem Azeem, who was accompanied by police, has confessed in a news conference to drugging and strangling his sister, 26-year-old Qandeel Baloch.
He said that through her risque videos and social media posts "she brought dishonour to the Baloch name."
Baloch died Friday when one he strangled her to death as she slept in the family's home in the province of Punjab.
"Apparently the lady died of suffocation, but final opinion on her death would be possible only after report of chemical examination comes," said Mushtaq Ahmed, who was among the team that conducted Baloch's autopsy.
"She might have been given some poisonous substance before being strangled."
Multan police chief Akram Azhar said authorities will charge Azeem with carrying out an "honor killing." They will seek the "maximum punishment," he added.
He has however said he has no regrets strangling her.
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