ISLAMABAD: This is with reference to Feisal H Naqvi’s article of January 31 titled, “Bloggers vs thanedars”.
I beg to differ and will not be part of the ‘Lynch Maya Bandwagon’. She did not deserve to be fired. Her two apologies were more than enough. If you think of it, what she did has been done by members of our police for years — and I have yet to hear of any policemen fired from his job for asking a couple’s nikah nama.
A park is a public space and that means a film crew can go there and film if they want. Also, there were some couples who managed to evade the camera crew, those who didn’t chose to stay and answer her, no doubt asinine, questions. The producer, to his credit, took long shots and avoided disclosing the identities of the couples.
I do agree that the defence she took was not really that good, that parents need to know where their children are. But seriously, the reaction to it was very disproportionate — and she definitely did not deserve to be fired.
Ali Wazir
Published in The Express Tribune, February 1st, 2012.
