For one hour, live upon a breakfast TV show upon Jan 17, couples sitting as well as talking in a Karachi play ground were hounded by TV horde Maya Khan, her crew as well as a group of like-minded women (later dubbed a "vigil aunties" in a journal headline). At slightest one integrate was married.
Maya as well as her moral police vigilantes went around a play ground intruding upon a couples: asking them what they were doing, whether their relatives knew their whereabouts, why they were not assembly during home if they were engaged and, in during slightest one instance, where was their marriage certificate if married.
Footage of a burial aunties' antics enraged a broad cross-section of Pakistan society when this video went online. After eleven days of a media storm, during that she apologised twice, a hire sacked her as well as her crew for refusing to offer an unconditional apology.Typical of a reaction was this comment: "What is a disproportion in between this kind of media vigilantism as well as that demonstrated by a Taliban?" pronounced Mahnaz Rahman, a director during a Aurat Foundation, an organisation that fights for women's rights in Pakistan quoted by a Dawn newspaper.
More than 5,000 people signed an online apply to that criticised Khan's function as "highly intrusive, invasive as well as potentially irresponsible".
The Dawn pronounced Samaa TV's preference to pouch Maya Khan "marked an surprising victory for Pakistan's beleaguered magnanimous minority, that has turn more marginalized as a nation has shifted to a right as well as whose members have been killed by extremists for station up for what they believe."
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