Hina Bayat urges content creators to think before posting

Actor slams those twisting her words

Hina Khwaja Bayat has taken to her Instagram handle to clarify recent comments she had seemingly made about actors Hania Aamir and Yashma Gill's attire. In her newly uploaded reel, a furious Hina maintains that her comments have been taken out of context.

"Some of you on social media have no content of your own, so you take everything out of context from someone else to make your video viral," she begins. "You think that you will get your views because you have taken some famous names that people will want to know more about, but you have actually just sowed discord."

Not one to back down, Hina posed, "What kind of content is this where you put something in people's hearts against someone else? You accuse people of saying something that they have not actually said."

The actor's video has its roots in the recent nuptials of actor Yashma's younger sister, pictures of which have taken social media by storm. Photos of Yashma dancing the night away with her actor bestie Hania have gone viral – and like anything else going viral, they have also attracted their fair share of comments.

"I was wondering if people have forgotten something called a kameez," Hina had earlier commented on a video of the pair dancing shared by blogger Afia Qazi.

Hina's comment attracted instantaneous backlash online, with former member of the Sindh Assembly Sharmila Faruqui calling her out in an IG Story, urging her to "live and let live".

"Stop judging women with their choice in clothing," wrote Sharmila at the time. "If that's the case then all men should wear sherwanis and not suits."

However, according to Hina, her comment about shirts had nothing to do with criticising either Hania or Yashma. Rather, it was an observation of changing fashion trends.

"Yes, I spoke up about something," she continues in her reel. "Our clothes today are not what they once were. We don't even see a peshwas or a kunday wali shalwar. And now, alongside a lehnga or gharara, we don't see a shirt. How does this mean that I am judging either Hania or Yashma? I am not God. I would not judge anyone else. But Allah will judge you for pulling this out of context to make your own posts go viral and get views. May we all be protected from people like you. Ameen."

Hina's reel underscores how easily any statement on social media can be twisted to mean something unintended.