Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker and minister of state for parliamentary affairs, Ali Muhammad Khan, and senior journalist Ansar Abbasi have lost it over a biscuit television commercial (TVC) wherein actor Mehwish Hayat was seen dancing.
Here’s what Abbasi tweeted:
The tweet that sought action against what Abbasi said was an “obscene dance to sell biscuits”, led to a viral hashtag seeking ban on “vulgarity on Pakistani TV” as hundreds of others tweeted in its favour.
Ali Muhammad Khan, on the other hand, added fuel to fire as he tweeted to call the same advert “anti-Islamic”.
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry took a dig at journalist Abbasi as well as Minister Khan.
“Why are you and Ali always digging out vulgarity? Try doing something productive,” he tweeted.
This isn’t the first time Abbasi has made his way to the limelight with such a concern.
Last month, he had drawn the ire of several netizens for urging Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, Federal Minister for Information Shibli Faraz and Special Assistant to PM (SAPM) on Information Lt Gen (r) Asim Bajwa to take notice of a woman exercising on state-owned Pakistan Television (PTV) News.
Fawad had not let go of that tweet either.
