'This is a culture': TikTok murder highlights Pakistan's unease with women online
"In my family, it wasn't an accepted profession at all, but I'd managed to convince them, and even ended up setting up my own business," she said.
Then last week, Sana Yousaf was shot and killed outside her house in the capital Islamabad by a man whose advances she had repeatedly rejected, police said.
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