‘Spread love, not hate’: Shaniera Akram says she sees things differently

Social activist and wife of former cricketer Wasim Akram, Shaniera Akram has urged people followers to ‘stop throwing her under the bus’ after facing criticism for expressing her support for the couple who was expelled from the University of Lahore.

Shaniera Akram, in a series of Instagram stories, requested her Pakistani followers to ‘cut her some slack’ and wrote in one of the stories, “Can everyone stop throwing me under the bus here,” wrote Shaniera. “I have fallen in our culture, our family values, and the way we are as a country.”

Akram then went onto say, “But you have to understand I have been brought up in another country,” lamented Shaniera explaining that she grew up in a multi-cultural city where there were many cultures. She continued that she hears harrowing stories of child abuse every day and that “This is also not our culture, but it exists.”

Akram then apologised to all those offended by her comments, saying that she has “nothing but love and respect for our culture and values. In fact, that’s why I love living in Pakistan so much.”