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"Imran Khan's abusive brigade is always with him on social media" : Ayesha Gulalai

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When the Pakistani politician Ayesha Gulalai Wazir accused the cricket-star-turned-opposition-leader Imran Khan of sexual harassment, the vitriol unleashed against her was swift and vicious.

First, leaders of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) party – which Gulalai also belongs to – publicly denounced her and demanded 30 million rupees (£218,000) in compensation for damage to his reputation and “mental torture”.

Then came the trolls.

On social media, some said Gulalai, 31, should have acid thrown in her face, others that she should be whipped. She was called a liar and a carpetbagger. Mocking TV hosts asked, smirking, if she actually wanted to marry the man she accused.

Gulalai says the political backlash is evidence of the abuse reserved for Pakistani women who venture to speak out publicly against harassment – abuse that increasingly takes place online.

“They [the party] have sent a message to women of Pakistan, that if you speak out against misuse of authority, you will face this kind of attitude,” Gulalai told the Guardian. “And this is from PTI who [say they] stand for change in Pakistan … because of this culture, women will keep mum.”

Gulalai says Khan began sending her “inappropriate” text messages in 2013, including sexual intimations and propositions to see him alone, and that he persisted after she rebuked him.

She has declined to publish the messages, saying sharing them with the media would fuel further abuse.

“His abusive brigade is always with him on social media,” Gulalai said of Khan and his supporters.

Instead, she said she would present them to a parliamentary investigation and has called for a forensic audit of her and Khan’s phones.

Khan, 64, has denied Gulalai’s allegations and said he would not comment on the claims unless she released the messages. He declined an interview for this article, but a spokeswoman said: “Unless she can come up with evidence of all she has accused Imran over, he will not be speaking on this matter.”

Meanwhile, the prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has granted Gulalai round-the-clock security and has called for a special committee to investigate her allegations.

The Women’s Action Forum condemned the reactions to Gulalai’s allegations as “character assassination.”

On Twitter, opinion has been divided between people commending Gulalai for speaking out and others criticising her.

From her own party, support has been scant. A group of female party members, led by Shireen Mazari, whose own daughter left PTI after being called a prostitute, dismissed Gulalai as an opportunist.

Khan’s celebrity and commanding presence have become synonymous with his party. In a recent local election in Lahore, where he personally campaigned for the party candidate, the party won ground.

Some have questioned the timing of Gulalai’s claims. She came forward days after Khan succeeded in his campaign to oust Nawaz Sharif as prime minister on corruption charges in July, leading some to accuse Gulalai of taking money to defend Sharif – a charge she vehemently denies.

“This has nothing to do with Nawaz,” she said. Her allegations were part of a broader tirade against Khan, in which she accused him and the party leadership of corruption. She claimed she had simply lost patience after Khan refused to dismiss the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over fraud allegations. The chief minister, Pervez Khattak, denies Gulalai’s allegations of corruption.

In a country where hundreds of women each year are murdered in so-called honour killings, public debasement of women carries real danger.

In 2014, the cricketer Halima Rafiq died, in what her family said was suicide, after accusing a top cricket official of sexual harassment.

In Pakistan, 75-80% of social media users are male, making women an online minority. In a study of 17 Pakistani universities, the Digital Rights Foundation found that 34% of surveyed women had experienced online abuse or harassment by men.

“Online violence encompasses and is encompassed by offline sociocultural issues such as domestic abuse and sexual harassment, and it is further buttressed and aggravated by factors that prevent women from exercising their right to justice,” the report says.

In a prominent incident last year, the social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was killed after continuously being harangued online. Her brother has admitted killing her.

At 31, Gulalai is Pakistan’s youngest parliamentarian and the first woman from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) to hold such office. Her younger sister, Maria Toorpakai Wazir, is a famous squash player who has also received death threats for playing in shorts and without a headscarf.

Following Gulalai’s accusations, social media users turned on her sister. After two days, Khan called on his supporters to lay off Toorpakai.

Gulalai’s ordeal illustrates the precarious position of female Pakistani MPs, according to Maria Waqar, a PhD student researching female parliamentarians in Pakistan. “Workplace harassment has a lot to do with power. That makes women parliamentarians vulnerable.”

Gulalai has so far resisted calls for her to quit the PTI, although she has raised the idea of starting her own political party in the future. “No one alone makes up a political party. PTI is not the property of Imran Khan,” she said. “This is [also] my party.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-khan-harassed-her-abuse-ayesha-gulalai-wazir
 
Proof that feminists are morally bankrupt....Make false allegations against Imran Khan and then when you are proven wrong hide behind feminism and play victim....

People will say not all feminists are like this... But they are wrong.. Majority are selfish and only care about how to use that you are a woman to get easier life and get ahead in life...

Just look how many of them are trying to indirectly or directly support Gulalai
 
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The Women’s Action Forum condemned the reactions to Gulalai’s allegations as “character assassination.”
:lol Gulalai hurls accusations without providing evidence. Meanwhile, her apologists have the audacity to whine about “character assassination.” :shhh
 
Wana hear a more interesting news? Gulalai said she is going to contest 2018 elections under PTI banner :))

پی ٹی آئی کی ناراض رکن اسمبلی عائشہ گلالئی نے اعلان کیا ہے کہ وہ تحریک انصاف سے ہی آئندہ الیکشن میں حصہ لیں گی۔

http://urdu.dunyanews.tv/index.php/ur/Pakistan/406891
 
Proof that feminists are morally bankrupt....Make false allegations against Imran Khan and then when you are proven wrong hide behind feminism and play victim....

People will say not all feminists are like this... But they are wrong.. Majority are selfish and only care about how to use that you are a woman to get easier life and get ahead in life...

Just look how many of them are trying to indirectly or directly support Gulalai

Probably one of the worst attempts to give a complete twist to the story. Gulali is being made a victim of abuse on social media, used honour killing masala to give legitimacy to their PATHETIC story and she is being posed as innocent victim of harrassment and abuse.

Fact is she has not presented a single proof till date
She openly lied about her DEMANDS of party tickets
She left the party and now saying it's her party not Imran Khan's.
She refused to give up her seat which was GIVEN to her (MOST IMPORTANT for her)
She lied about other PTI women being harrassed (denied by even those who left the party)
She lied about other ex PTI leaders joining hands under her leadership
She uses pathetic language against Imran Khan herself in every show.

But no, bechari aurat aur zaalim muashra sounds lot more appealing to these opportunists who sell this crap to their audience to prove themselves as champions of women rights.
 
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People of Pakistan who vote for the criminals have no human right to complain about anything they do.
 
Probably one of the worst attempts to give a complete twist to the story. Gulali is being made a victim of abuse on social media, used honour killing masala to give legitimacy to their PATHETIC story and she is being posed as innocent victim of harrassment and abuse.

Fact is she has not presented a single proof till date
She openly lied about her DEMANDS of party tickets
She left the party and now saying it's her party not Imran Khan's.
She refused to give up her seat which was GIVEN to her (MOST IMPORTANT for her)
She lied about other PTI women being harrassed (denied by even those who left the party)
She lied about other ex PTI leaders joining hands under her leadership
She uses pathetic language against Imran Khan herself in every show.

But no, bechari aurat aur zaalim muashra sounds lot more appealing to these opportunists who sell this crap to their audience to prove themselves as champions of women rights.

Everything you said brother, requires a functioning cerebral crotex and active brain cells to comprehend ~ two things that unfortunately are quite scarce in our society :(
 
Probably one of the worst attempts to give a complete twist to the story. Gulali is being made a victim of abuse on social media, used honour killing masala to give legitimacy to their PATHETIC story and she is being posed as innocent victim of harrassment and abuse.

Fact is she has not presented a single proof till date
She openly lied about her DEMANDS of party tickets
She left the party and now saying it's her party not Imran Khan's.
She refused to give up her seat which was GIVEN to her (MOST IMPORTANT for her)
She lied about other PTI women being harrassed (denied by even those who left the party)
She lied about other ex PTI leaders joining hands under her leadership
She uses pathetic language against Imran Khan herself in every show.

But no, bechari aurat aur zaalim muashra sounds lot more appealing to these opportunists who sell this crap to their audience to prove themselves as champions of women rights.

POTW material
 
Probably one of the worst attempts to give a complete twist to the story. Gulali is being made a victim of abuse on social media, used honour killing masala to give legitimacy to their PATHETIC story and she is being posed as innocent victim of harrassment and abuse.

Fact is she has not presented a single proof till date
She openly lied about her DEMANDS of party tickets
She left the party and now saying it's her party not Imran Khan's.
She refused to give up her seat which was GIVEN to her (MOST IMPORTANT for her)
She lied about other PTI women being harrassed (denied by even those who left the party)
She lied about other ex PTI leaders joining hands under her leadership
She uses pathetic language against Imran Khan herself in every show.

But no, bechari aurat aur zaalim muashra sounds lot more appealing to these opportunists who sell this crap to their audience to prove themselves as champions of women rights.

Rich women patting eachother on the back for being mazloom when they can’t even spend a day in average Pakistani guy’s life without giving up because it’s too hard...
 
Probably one of the worst attempts to give a complete twist to the story. Gulali is being made a victim of abuse on social media, used honour killing masala to give legitimacy to their PATHETIC story and she is being posed as innocent victim of harrassment and abuse.

Fact is she has not presented a single proof till date [False]
She openly lied about her DEMANDS of party tickets [Partially True]
She left the party and now saying it's her party not Imran Khan's. [True]
She refused to give up her seat which was GIVEN to her (MOST IMPORTANT for her) [so?]
She lied about other PTI women being harrassed (denied by even those who left the party) [unverified, investigation needed]
She lied about other ex PTI leaders joining hands under her leadership [no comment as I have not followed this story]
She uses pathetic language against Imran Khan herself in every show.

But no, bechari aurat aur zaalim muashra sounds lot more appealing to these opportunists who sell this crap to their audience to prove themselves as champions of women rights.

my comments in-line above.
 
PTI's Shireen Mazari's response to the article in the OP, which she dismissed as a "factually incorrect story":


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This honourable Gulalai lady had taken her father to propose marriage on her behalf to the horrible man she accused of harassing her for years. I wonder if her apologists will play the character assassination card again. :sree
 
This honourable Gulalai lady had taken her father to propose marriage on her behalf to the horrible man she accused of harassing her for years. I wonder if her apologists will play the character assassination card again. :sree

As per her interviews, IK sent messages and wanted to see her alone, she shared the messages with his dad and they decided to confront IK so they went to IK and showed him his messages and asked what IK wants...
As per her, IK did not like that she brought her dad and younger brother.

and still IK kept sending messages..

Good to know that it's a marriage proposal as per Insafiyan...
 
As per her interviews, IK sent messages and wanted to see her alone, she shared the messages with his dad and they decided to confront IK so they went to IK and showed him his messages and asked what IK wants...
As per her, IK did not like that she brought her dad and younger brother.

and still IK kept sending messages..

Good to know that it's a marriage proposal as per Insafiyan...

If you can trust Gulalai's vitriol without any solid proof, you can grant the same privilege to Shireen Mazari...
 
Basically, you're suggesting that Gulalai is the only trustworthy woman in PTI, since it's pretty much her word against the rest.

Several years back, when IK did not (or better could not) visit Rajan Pur, Shireen Mazari left the party in protest.
I did not trust then, and now, when she is a PTI's media person, I must not trust her...It's her duty to support her leader...
 
I said partially true ..

Topic of ticket was also discussed but she did not demand as IK was not distributing tickets...and that time is several months away anyway...

A partial truth that is. :))

So, was she discussing ticket for some research purpose for her PhD?
 
A partial truth that is. :))

So, was she discussing ticket for some research purpose for her PhD?

Her delegate was from Peshawar so they might have asked IK about his plans about Peshawar seats...
(delegate had reservations about Khatak govt etc...so it's normal people complain about their councilor, MPA, MNA, CM etc...)
 
Her delegate was from Peshawar so they might have asked IK about his plans about Peshawar seats...
(delegate had reservations about Khatak govt etc...so it's normal people complain about their councilor, MPA, MNA, CM etc...)

NA 1 was particularly discussed. And she herself had acknowledged that as well as the key PTI member from the delegation.
 
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