Source: digitaljournal.com
Islamabad – Since her performance in the Indian TV reality show Bigg Boss was made controversial, actress Veena Malik’s personality has been targeted further by a vulgar SMS campaign. And there seem to be more than one reason at work in targeting the celebrity.
After criticism from some media sources and a group of select clerics and showbiz people, the persecution of actress Veena Malik has taken the form of vulgar text messages that are being propagated against her for about a week. Unlike the criticism on media where Veena is invited to defend herself, which she does in a mouth-bashing manner, this practice of circulating vulgar sms against the actress is a more virulent way of putting the celebrity to moral torture. Since Veena has done nothing unusual, nothing that previously wasn’t part of the ‘moral code’ of Pakistani showbiz industry, the question “Why Veena?” is indeed knocking at my mind’s door. Why Veena indeed?
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Since the Pakistani media seems to be in the insulting mode these days, here is my own two-pence worth of the same aimed at those who have insulted my sense of being a Pakistani man: Veena Malik has become my icon, not of the celebrity variety, but as a woman who braved the insults hurled at her by two bigoted men, one of them bearded, on national TV the other night for being herself on a recently concluded reality TV show in India. It is such men and their lack of respect for women under different pretexts that defines exactly what has gone wrong with our society. That is why we will not have another Noorjehan, not even another Mehdi Hasan, in our midst for a long time to come, and that is why we will keep killing banning Basant celebrations, and not the killer twine. Instead, we’ll just have more of the same bigots manning our airwaves and pushing their obscurantist agenda, as if to honour the memory of Ziaul Haq and his ilk. And, of course, insulting women and minorities on public TV is not a subject that our courts will ever find worthy of taking notice of.
Veena Malik created uproar in Indian as well as Pakistan when she participated in the Indian reality show ‘Bigg Boss 4’, oneindiaentertainment.com reported.
After the mid-1970s, rural migration to urban centres increased manifold. A new middle class, which had recently become urbanised, provided the basis for Zia’s Islamisation and, later on, jihadi projects
Many link this break up to Malik’s friendship with Ashmit Patel but the actor has a different story to tell. While talking to The Express Tribune she said, “I called up Faisal and told him that I can no longer marry him. I told him that I am breaking the engagement as I have to focus on my career. We couldn’t develop an understanding and there was no use in dragging this engagement any further.”
