Celebrities enraged over motorway rape incident
Last updated on: 11 September,2020 09:59 am
Celebrities enraged over motorway rape incident
(Web Desk) - Amid a growing number of sexual assault cases being reported across the country, last night’s incident of a woman being raped after getting robbed on the Lahore motorway has rattled the populace.
Social media burst into outrage as many celebrities and public figures spoke up for the victim and demanded justice with exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
Actor Osman Khalid Butt asked the authorities to look into the matter of her call for help being denied by the Motorway Police. "Please investigate this as well: ‘She called the Motorway Police’s emergency helpline 130 for assistance. However, she was told by the operator that she could not be provided help as the emergency beat had not been assigned to anyone," Osman said.
"This is shameful, it is gross negligence, and the Motorway Police should be held accountable. She called an emergency helpline and was denied help," he added.
— Osman Khalid Butt (@aClockworkObi) September 9, 2020
Armeena Khan said that incidents such as this add to the sense of fear in citizens, "This piece of news has suddenly made every woman (including myself) feel unsafe," Khan said.
— Armeena (@ArmeenaRK) September 9, 2020
Actor Feroze Khan went one step further and said that people found guilty in such cases should be publicly executed otherwise PM Imran Khan’s dream of modeling Pakistan on the line of “Riasat e Madina” will remain a dream.
— Feroze Khan (@ferozekhaan) September 10, 2020
Actress Ushna Shah wrote, "The irony that I tweeted "I’m okay with this" to a video of a rapist being stoned to death an hour prior to news of mother raped in front of children on motorway and to days after news of five-year-old Marwah, shows how deep in trouble we are as a society."
— Ushna Shah (@ushnashah) September 9, 2020