Bakhtawar Bhutto demands ban on entry of men in public places

Some 100 odd frustrated boys and men attacked me, my cameraman at Mazare-e-Quaid: female journalist

LAHORE (Web Desk) - After the Minar-e-Pakistan incident that sparked extreme outrage among the youth, PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and former premier Shaheed Benazir Bhutto s eldest daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari demanded a ban on entry of men in public places.

It is pertinent to mention here that after the video of the Minar e Pakistan incident in which a female TikToker was being assaulted by crowds of men on August 14 in Lahore went viral, the video has left viewers shocked and evoking sharp denunciation from social media users.

Another video reportedly from the same day has surfaced on social media in which it can be that a girl was molested by a man who chased her while she was sitting in a rickshaw.

After these incidents, a similar incident was reported on Twitter by a female journalist Sabin Agha. She also narrated her story of similar incident.

“I am not TikToker or Youtuber. I am journalist. I went to Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi for reporting on 14 August few years ago. I was reporting, doing my job, not hurling kisses as this victim blaming nation is accusing that TikToker girl,” she said.

— Sabin Agha (@sabin_journo) August 20, 2021

“Some 100 odd frustrated boys and men attacked me and my cameraman at Mazare-e-Quaid. My cameraman and his camera were shoved back & forth/ but I was manhandled. I was gropped on every part of my body. My hair were pulled from back & both sides. My cloths & duppatta wer pulled by men, Sabin tweeted.

— Sabin Agha (@sabin_journo) August 20, 2021

“At one point someone tried to wrap my duppatta around my neck to choke me, all the while gropping me with hysterical laughs and every existing cussword hurled at me. When someone grabbed my arm and pulled me outside that mob of sexually frustrated boys and men.”

— Sabin Agha (@sabin_journo) August 20, 2021

“With shaking nervs & body I went to police van standing at doorstep of Mazar Quaid, who watched the entire episode. I asked them why did they not come to help. Police response: “We are only four and they are more than 150 so how can we stop them. Why did you come here (bibi hum 4 hay aur wo 150. Hum kese rok sktay thy. Ap ayee kiyun),” she explained.

— Sabin Agha (@sabin_journo) August 20, 2021

Bakhtawar Bhutto took to Twitter and appealed to the government to ban men from public spaces.

“Another harrowing experience – witnessed by police who refused to help despite their ability to call for backup as well as use weapons to disperse the crowd. Trusted to help & instead complicit. Men should be banned from public spaces. We need more women to safeguard women,” she wrote.

— Bakhtawar B-Zardari (@BakhtawarBZ) August 21, 2021