MULTAN: Mufti Abdul Qavi who was nominated as a possible suspect in the Qandeel Baloch murder case has gone in hiding, police said on Monday.
His phone has been switched off and he cannot be traced, police said.
A team has been formed to arrest the cleric who made headlines for appearing in a video with slain social media sensation Qandeel Baloch.
One video showed Qandeel shaking hands with Qavi as she sat on the arm of a sofa by his side. Qavi was suspended from the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee in the controversy following the video posts.
He was nominated in the case through a court order. Others accused in the case Waseem, Haq Nawaz and Basit will be produced in the court today.
Qavi in a press conference held last month denied being involved in the murder. However, Qandeel?s mother in a press statement claimed that the cleric instigated his son Waseem to kill Qandeel as she was ruining the family?s honour.
Waseem, her brother confessed to strangling Qandeel to death in apparent honour-killing. He is in police custody.
The murder took place in July when Qandeel was sleeping at her house in Muzaffabad area, Multan, her parents said in a statement recorded to the police. Her parents were sleeping on the rooftop. Â
Prior to her death Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, spoke of worries about her safety and had appealed to the interior ministry to provide her with security for protection.
In Facebook posts, Baloch, 26, spoke of trying to change "the typical orthodox mindset" of people in Pakistan. She faced frequent abuse and death threats but continued to post provocative pictures and videos.
The so-called 'honour-killing' has sent shockwaves across the country and triggered an outpouring of grief on social media for Baloch.
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