Tue, 21-Oct-2025

LHC orders Edu Department to make laws about social media trolling  

LHC

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the Punjab education department to necessary laws  to control incidents of harassment and social media trolling in educational institutes. In the Lahore High Court, a hearing was held on the case against child harassment and social media trolling in schools, in which the Secretary Special Education appeared before … Read more

IHC rejects bail plea of accused involved in harassment

IHC

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected the bail plea of the accused who spread objectionable photos of the woman on social media.

Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri of Islamabad High Court issued a 6-page written decision rejecting the bail petition of the accused Haseeb, saying that according to the technical review report, the accused committed a serious crime.

The court wrote in its decision that this crime has become very common in society, in many cases girls have even committed suicide, and the accused involved in such crimes do not deserve any exemption.

[embedpost slug=”phc-issues-written-order-on-petition-regarding-reserved-seats”]

Read more

Motorcyclist harasses female university students in Karachi

Student harassment

KARACHI: Police have taken notice after female university students were allegedly harassed on a busy main road in Karachi. A female student shared a video on social media showing a man riding a motorcycle performing a lewd act and uttering indecent words. The video of the incident soon went viral and expressed outrage over the … Read more

Karachi harassment case: Police forms 5-member team to apprehend suspect

Karachi harassment

KARACHI: Police have expedited efforts to arrest the suspect who sexually harassed a woman in broad daylight in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, BOL News reported. A case has been registered against the culprit who performed a lewd act by exposing himself in public and attempted to assault a passerby woman, who successfully repelled the attack. A video of … Read more

China restaurant attack sparks outcry over violence against women

attack

Nine arrested in connection with attack on a group of women at a restaurant in China. Video shows man placing his hand on woman’s back and then attacking her. Incident sparks outrage on social media about predatory sexual behavior. Police in China said Saturday that nine people have been arrested in connection with a savage … Read more

Elon Musk disputes harassment charges as SpaceX seeks $1.7 billion in funding

elon musk

Elon Musk’s rocket business SpaceX is aiming to secure $1.7 billion in new capital as its controversial creator continues to make headlines in the last week of his defamation trial against former lovers Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. According to CNBC, citing a company-wide email received by the network, the space travel pioneer will pay … Read more

Andy Dick was arrested in California on suspicion of sexual battery

Andy Dick

Andy Dick, a well-known American comedian, was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery in California on Wednesday. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to media outlets that the arrest was made in response to a report of a sexual assault at a campground. According to Sgt. Scott Steinle of Page Six, the police received … Read more

Farhan Azmi, Ayesha Takia’s husband, claims he was subjected to racism at Goa Airport

Farhan Azmi

Actress Ayesh Takia’s significant other Farhan Azmi as of late took to web-based entertainment to uncover that he confronted bigotry and ‘filthy se*ual remark’ from the Focal Modern Security Power (CISF) at the Goa air terminal. He additionally guaranteed that a male security official attempted to contact his better half and requested that Ayesha stand … Read more

A Stanford professor calls the cops; find out why?

“Professor Karen” is a Stanford University professor who reportedly intimidated a black professor who exposed her $5,000-per-hour consultancy price. This week, Stanford professor Jo Boaler and Jelani Nelson, an African-American student at Berkeley, engaged in a tense exchange on Twitter that sparked claims of racial discrimination and harassment. The public spat between Nelson and Boaler … Read more

Pakistan condemns harassment of journalists, activists in IIOJK

Pakistan rejects

Pakistan has condemned the increasing harassment, illegal arrests, and registration of fake criminal cases against journalists and civil society activists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), a statement by Foreign Office (FO) said on Sunday. The statement added that Saturday’s reported attack on the Kashmir Press Club reflects India’s entrenched use of brute … Read more

Egypt’s key revolution figure jailed

revolution figure

Egypt sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to five years in jail, with two others receiving four years, his sister and a judicial source said. A computer programmer, blogger and high-profile activist who mobilised youths in the uprising that unseated autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Abdel Fattah had been in pre-trial detention … Read more

Atif Aslam stops concert midway to save the families from mishap

After witnessing the male audience harassing females and their families, Well-known singer Atif Aslam stormed out from a concert.  Atif Aslam was performing live in Islamabad. The singer addressed the male audience, emphasising the importance of giving women space and ensuring that women and families in the crowd are protected from harassment. Read more: After … Read more

Karachi: Punjabi female doctor facing discrimination, being forced to quit her job

Karachi: Punjabi female doctor facing discrimination, being forced to quit her job

A senior Punjabi female doctor of  Karachi’s major public hospital said that she has been harassed and facing discrimination for the past several months on gender and ethnic grounds. The doctor is in charge of the gastroenterology and hepatology ward at the hospital and said that she is the only female doctor working in any … Read more

Anti-women harassment cell inaugurated

LAHORE: To counter rising crimes of harassment and violence against women in Lahore, police have set up An Anti-Harassment and Violence Cell (AHVC) to ensure prompt registration of cases and investigation in every such case. Capital City Police Officer Lahore Additional IG Ghulam Mahmood Dogar on Tuesday inaugurated the first Women Harassment and Violence Cell … Read more

South Australian Labor MP Tony Piccolo faces claims of bullying

Tony Piccolo

A second South Australian member of parliament has been referred to an official investigator over bullying claims. Treasurer Rob Lucas says accusations against Labor MP Tony Piccolo have been forwarded to the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment. It comes after allegations that a former trainee of MP was exposed to escalating harassment and abuse leading … Read more

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Harassed Women, Investigation Finds

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Harassed Women, Investigation Finds

The state’s attorney general says a five-month investigation has found that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed several women in violation of state and federal laws and created an “atmosphere of fear” in the office. ۔ According to the report, Letitia James told a news briefing that an independent investigation showed that Cuomo had … Read more

Mariyam Nafees Receives Harassment Messages On Instagram

Mariyam Nafees

Leading Pakistani actress, Mariyam Nafees for the first time opens about being harassed by sharing screenshots of the private message she received, the post went viral on social media.

Mariyam shared her ordeal of a man sending her filthy messages on Instagram. In the said message, he offered her a sum of money ‘for few hours with his friend.’

She took to social media and called out the troll, she wrote, “The point of putting this up is because I truly want to put a stop to this,”

She added, “I don’t know who’s responsible for these morons to think this way and who’s entertaining them but no! Absolutely not! I and my esteemed co-actresses respectfully work for 12 hours (sometimes more) every day and we refuse to tolerate this mentality.”

She concluded, “We come from educated backgrounds to make a name for ourselves. Nobody, and I mean, not a single person, is allowed to disrespect us. Actresses are not prostitutes!”

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQl493Kjtfu/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

https://youtu.be/b01YhkAOQdk

[embedpost slug=”pakistani-actress-mariyam-nafees-reacts-to-firdous-ashiq-awans-video/”]

Read more

Armeena Khan: Harassment Of Women Has Become A Global Problem

Armeena Khan: Harassment Of Women Has Become A Global Problem

The leading actress of the Pakistani drama industry, Armeena Khan has said that harassment of women has become a global problem.

In one of her stories on Instagram, the actress described the nature of an incident that happened to her in Manchester.

 

[amazonad category=”Mobile”]

 

Armina Khan said that when I went for a walk in Manchester, England today, I was harassed and the women jogging in front of me were experiencing the same thing.

She said, “I went out for a long walk today in Manchester. The cat calling was unreal, not just myself but other female joggers ahead of me were also experiencing the same thing. This is a global problem,”

She stated this event ‘ridiculous’.

 

https://youtu.be/EF2q85_LLJM

[embedpost slug=”armeena-khan-faces-criticism-for-wearing-high-slit-gown/”]

Read more

Shia Labeouf Denies Physical Abuse Allegations By Singer FKA Twigs

Shia Labeouf Denies Physical Abuse Allegations By Singer FKA Twigs

Shia Labeouf, a 33-year-old American actor and model, has denied allegations of physical abuse and harassment by 33-year-old British singer Tahliah Debrett Barnett, also known as FKA Twigs. In December 2020, British singer FKA Twigs filed a lawsuit against Shia Labeouf in a Los Angeles court. In an interview last month, the actress reiterated the … Read more

India: Facial Recognition Cameras To Spot Harassment Raise Privacy Concerns

India: Facial Recognition Cameras To Spot Harassment Raise Privacy Concerns

New Delhi: Digital rights experts have warned that policing and secrecy in a police project in India to monitor women’s reactions through facial recognition technology to protect women harassed on the streets violates privacy. According to the report, Commissioner of Police D.K. Thakur said that in Lucknow, about 500 km from New Delhi, police identified … Read more

Osman Khalid Butt tells difference between harassment and flirting

Osman Khalid Butt

Harassment is aggressive pressure or intimidation, which obviously is not acceptable in any part of the world.

To educated people on the difference between flirting and harassment, the Ehd-e-Wafa actor used a viral meme and pointed out the difference.

The original meme showed a man and woman indulging in PDA with the caption,

“The difference between harassment and flirting is your financial position.”

However, Butt corrected the picture, cut out the latter part, and wrote,

“The difference between harassment and flirting is CONSENT.”

Tweet:

Earlier, Osman Khalid Butt was the first Pakistani to discover the Bollywood version of Bibi Sanam Janam. He took to his Twitter and said that people should listen to it on their own risk.

[embedpost slug=”netizens-criticize-bollywood-for-copying-pakistani-song-once-again/”]

Read more

Karachi: Police arrested two accused of harassing a student in Essa Nagri

Karachi: Police arrested two accused of harassing a student in Essa Nagri

Police have arrested two accused of harassing a girl in a residential building near Essa Nagri area of Karachi. A video was released on social media by a matriculation student in which she mentioned that some people had allegedly harassed her and other women. “We were returning from somewhere when my sister was slapped by … Read more

Harassment of Pakistani diplomats continues in India

Pakistani diplomats

Harassment of Pakistani diplomats could not be stopped in India. According to sources, three incidents of harassment of Pakistani diplomats have taken place in New Delhi. Since this morning, the Pakistan High Commission has been besieged by people in normal clothes. Sources said that three officials of the Pakistan High Commission were followed by some … Read more

Cynthia Ritchie sends Rs 120 mn notice to Gillani, asked for apology

Cynthia Ritchie

In response to ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, US blogger Cynthia Ritchie  has sent a legal notice of Rs 120 million. According to the details, Gillani had sent a defamation notice of Rs100 million to Ritchie after she went public with accusations against him. The legal notice was sent to the US citizen through Gillani’s … Read more

Woman lecturer set ablaze by stalker dies in India

India rape

An Indian college lecturer who was allegedly set on fire by a man accused of stalking her for months has died, a week after she was attacked on her way to work at a college in central Maharashtra state of India. According to the hospital, the young lecturer was put on a ventilator on Friday, … Read more