A horrific incident saddened entire Pakistan when a TikTor named Ayesha Akram was harassed, groped, robbed, and tortured publically by a mob of 400 people in broad day light and no one came to rescue her.
This unfortunate incident occurred on Independence Day at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan, the place where Quaid-e-Azam gave one of his historical speeches in 1947. After her video being harassed and humiliated went video on social media and Ayesha Akram decided to speak out.
According to Ayesha, she was tortured for straight three hours, from 6.30 to 9 pm and no one came to rescue her not even the police. She also recalled that until she was conscious she clearly remembers her team contacting the cops but they did not receive any response.
Ayesha gave an interview to Daily Pakistan where she recalled the horrific incident with a teary eye and revealed that she was continuously grabbed by her hair. “I was weeping continuously and they were saying that I act nice,” she shared while telling how she was continuously being tortured.
According to Ayesha, if a woman isn’t safe in her own country she isn’t safe anywhere. “Even I am a YouTuber or a TikToker, no one has a right to strip me naked for what I am what I do,” Akram said.
She also highlighted the impact she had of torture on her physique. “There is no place left on my body where there are no marks left,” she asserted by adding, “I was not wearing a revealing attire, never ever dressed vulgarly, still I was stripped in front of my eyes.”
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Upon being asked why no one helped her, to which she revealed, “People who were saving me were the ones harassing me. If one man was covering me, another would snatch that cover away.”
“I was almost suffocated to death lying on the ground, thirsty and hopeless, that’s when a boy came running and tried to feed me water but I could not,” she added. Ayesha also demanded that if law and order cannot do anything then public places should be banned on such auspicious occasions or should only be allowed for families.
