New Delhi: A 28-year-old TikToker in Pakistan’s Punjab province was shot lifeless by unidentified assailants on Friday. Shamso Bibi, identified on-line as Ayesha Gilamana, was murdered reportedly over a monetary dispute. Bibi’s brother Niamatullah instructed an impartial media outlet Voicepk that the household was in search of intervention from Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, after the police’s failure to arrest anybody.
The killing has introduced the highlight again on violence in opposition to girls within the nation. A video of the shooting has been extensively shared on social media. Within the footage described by native media, two males on a motorbike wait in a market, method Bibi’s car and fireplace pictures inside earlier than fleeing.
Bibi’s TikTok account, which had greater than 13 lakh followers, was deactivated after her demise. Her killing follows a collection of instances involving TikTok creators and younger girls being focused within the Rawalpindi-Islamabad space.
In July this 12 months, Ali Raza was shot and killed in Lalkurti, Rawalpindi, in what native reviews described as a dispute linked to movies posted by him. Police arrested suspects within the case.
In January final 12 months, a 16-year-old lady in Rawalpindi was killed by her father in what police described as an ‘honor killing’ after she refused to delete her TikTok account. Then in June, 17-year-old TikTok creator Sana Yousaf was shot and killed inside her residence in Islamabad.
The Yousaf case resulted in a landmark conviction. Umar Hayat was sentenced by a district and classes courtroom to 21 years of imprisonment underneath a number of costs. The courtroom additionally ordered him to pay compensation to Yousaf’s household and imposed a positive. An attraction is pending earlier than the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom, locla media reported.
Bibi’s killing reignited the social media debate round girls security. Unbiased Pakistani journalist Ammara Ahmad identified the insensitivity and misogyny surrounding the protection.
One social media web page seemingly mocked the low attendance at her funeral: ‘1.3 million followers but few attended her funeral, highlighting social media actuality,’ it captioned the submit.
Ahmad wrote: “Pakistani girls obtain zero grace in demise. Shamsu Bibi was a younger influencer who was murdered in Taxila, Pakistan. And that is the headline on social media web page. Undecided if the pictures are from her precise funeral however disgrace on whoever got here up with this.”
(Edited by Prashant Dixit)
