Maryam Nawaz received immense backlash on Twitter after posting a puzzling and insulting message about the loss of renowned journalist Arshad Sharif.
After hours of criticism online and on TV, Maryam deleted the tweet and tweeted an apology.
She shared a picture of Arshad Sharif’s coffin being wrapped in ropes on the runway of the airport and being flown by Qatar Airways to Pakistan. “I don’t feel good RTing this but this is a lesson for mankind that we must all imbibe,” she wrote beside the photo when she posted it online.
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Maryam Nawaz’s tweet about Arshad Sharif’s demise has drawn harsh criticism from social media users who call it “insensitive” and unsettling.
People are demanding she take down the tweet. She sent out a tweet that prominent journalists like Nasim Zehra and Ansar Abbasi described as “ill-timed.” They instructed her to keep quiet about the situation.
اس بیان سے ارشد شریف کی توہین کرنا مقصد تھا لیکن اس بیان سے آپ کی ذہنیت مزید آشکار ہوئ ہے،آپ کو شرم آنی چاہئے تھی اس وقت جب پورا ملک ارشد شریف کی شہادت سے دکھ اور گریہہ کی کیفیت ہے آپ نے صرف ارشد کی والدہ اور خاندان کے دکھ میں نہیں ہر پاکستانی کے دکھ میں اضافہ کیا ہے #ShameOnYou https://t.co/WLUGL4yKzI
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 25, 2022
A few hours after Arshad Sharif was murdered, the PMLN came under fire for sharing a video of cake-cutting at Diwali celebrations online. Arshad Sharif, a distinguished journalist, was shot dead in Kenya, and his remains will arrive in Islamabad on October 26 at 1:05 a.m. According to information provided to the media on Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the late Arshad Sharif’s body was flown by Qatar Airways aircraft QR1342 from Nairobi to Doha at 0125 on Tuesday.
The arrangements being made at Nairobi Airport for the body’s return were examined by Saqlain Syeda, Pakistan’s high commissioner to Kenya. In a Monday phone chat with Kenyan President William Ruto, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif emphasized the need for an impartial and fair investigation into the assassination of senior journalist Arshad Sharif. While discussing the unfortunate occurrence with the president of Kenya, the prime minister also expressed the nation and media Pakistan’s grave concerns. In addition, he requested that the Kenyan president hurry forward with the filing of the appropriate papers to return the bodies of the dead journalists to Pakistan.
Breakfast show host Shiffa Z. Yousafzai tweeted that she is not at all surprised to hear this from her. It makes sense that she wanted to celebrate Deewali after the most valuable asset of the nation you claim can only be ruled by “hum hukumraan khaandan” was gone.
Wow – not at all shocked to see this coming from you. No wonder you felt like celebrating deewali when the country you claim can only be ruled be “hum hukumraan khaandan” lost its most precious asset.
وطن کی مٹی گواہ رہنا۔۔۔ https://t.co/und3ulTTbM
— Shiffa Z. Yousafzai (@Shiffa_ZY) October 25, 2022
Analyst and columnist Khawar Ghumman tweeted I wish you shouldn’t have RT this one.
I wish you shouldn’t have RT this one. https://t.co/qiULjJk0gJ pic.twitter.com/Q0gop1IbeU
— Khawar Ghumman (@Ghummans) October 25, 2022
Sara Taseer tweeted that Maryam Nawaz wins the challenge to show my assumption that she can sink any lower. Big applause for being a part of the gutter depths.
When I think @MaryamNSharif can’t go any lower she wins the challenge to prove me wrong. Big applause for belonging to the depths of the gutter. #ArshadShariff https://t.co/Pdkjk3IG8n
— Sara Taseer (@sarataseer) October 25, 2022
Pakistan’s most prominent journalist Ansar Abbasi tweeted that it was an unethical and ill-timed tweet.
Unethical and ill-timed tweet. https://t.co/3JhOJKhGfJ
— Ansar Abbasi (@AnsarAAbbasi) October 25, 2022
Former PTI MNA Maleeka Ali Bokhari tweeted you certainly represent the worst aspects of humanity! Utterly filthy and sick. Mocking a deceased man who was brutally & sarcastically murdered.
You proved that you are inhumane when we believed you couldn’t possibly be any more terrible. Wait for your Karma, you and your family harassed him.
You are truly the most vile face of humanity! Sick and disgusting to the core. Mocking a dead man who was murdered with such brutality & sarcasm. When we thought you couldn't stoop any lower, you showed that you are just inhumane You & your family hounded him wait for your Karma https://t.co/EeuDWaFwTf
— Maleeka Ali Bokhari (@MalBokhari) October 25, 2022
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