A man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan from the United States on Wednesday confessed to shooting dead his teenage daughter, motivated by his disapproval of her TikTok content, Pakistani police said.

A man who recently moved his family back to Pakistan from the US has confessed to killing his teenage daughter because he disapproved of her TikTok videos, police have told the BBC.

As popular social media app TikTok faces a litmus test in the West and South Asia, the app's popularity is proving fatal for young users in conservative societies. One such case has come to light in Pakistan,