The recent incident at Minar-e-Pakistan not only left the nation in shock but women got vocal about their worst experiences.
On August 14, a female TikToker named Ayesha Akram visited the Greater Iqbal Park with her friends, Amir Sohail and Saddam Hussain.
While three were recording videos near the monument, suddenly a mob attacked the girl, groping and tossing the victim in the air, tearing her clothes in the hustle.
Soon after the videos went viral, Lahore police registered a case against 400 desperadoes, who humiliated the woman with no mercy.
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As the nation was traumatized by the incident, Yasir Shami and Iqrar–ul-Hassan went to interview the victim.
Following the gruesome act, two female Twitter users narrated their stories in a series of threads which signify that Murree Mall Road and Minar-e-Pakistan are less of tourist attractions and more of dens of harassers.
A Twitter user named Hamna Haq said that she and her older sister got groped and harassed at Minar-e-Pakistan by some 40-50 people and nobody was there to rescue them.
“What’s funny is we never told Amma (Mom) because she’d never let us out of the house again, the onus is always on us”, she wrote while shedding light on societal pressure.
I’m not even going to bother going into the details because it is too, too triggering and at this point i have blocked half of it in my brain i don’t even remember . felt like something out a fucking movie. except it wasn’t ? i relived the whole thing watching that video. god.
— h. 🌸 (@hamnahaqansari) August 17, 2021
Another Twitter user Zamnah witnessed similar behavior at Mall Road Murree on August 13 while she was near her hotel with her family. A group of 50-60 boys reached out to them but none of the police officers standing nearby bothered to help.
Facing the traumatizing situation, she fought the harassers and screamed out her lungs for assistance.
Two days later, she tweeted that a similar incident occurred with a transgender person at the same spot.
Yesterday I was on Mall Road when a group of 30 boys ig started harassing two transgenders minding their own business. And at one point, they forcibly stopped both of them and started to rate them infront of whole public. Tell me what wrong have they done to deserve all this?
— Zamnah 🇵🇸 (@anaaresistanam) August 15, 2021