Solis Festival canceled midway as overcrowding collapses stage

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Solis Festival canceled midway as overcrowding collapses stage

According to the management, many broke into the event with fake passes and it became too unsafe.

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Updated 17 Feb, 2020

The Solis Festival returned to Islamabad on Saturday but was canceled midway.

People revealed that the event was crashed by rioters and a platform even broke, injuring many audience members.

After the rush and problems, the Solis management canceled the event, apologising to those who'd bought tickets.

According to them, the overcrowding was due to many printing fake tickets and breaking in; Solis released a statement about canceling the event.

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"We had to make the difficult decision to stop the event due to hundreds of individuals who fought their way through with fake tickets. This spoiled the night for everyone else that purchased authorized tickets."

"As always, security and safety is at the utmost priority for our festival attendees, vendors, sponsors and artists. We want all our fans to feel safe and happy at every show, and because of the actions of these individuals we weren’t able to do so."

The management also revealed that they will be issuing a further more detailed statement, "but for now want to thank our fans who purchased real tickets and came to genuinely enjoy the event."

However, the statement was not enough for many who took to Twitter to reveal what really happened and also share their dissatisfaction and outrage at the way things unfolded.

People shared their horror stories

This video went viral

Many blamed the management

That bad huh?

So much for FOMO

Comments

M. Emad Feb 16, 2020 05:53pm

A young woman who attended 2019 Lahore's Solis Festival claimed molestation, sexual assault.

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Ibrahim S Feb 16, 2020 05:57pm

Don’t just blame politicians and religious goons. This mentality is in our DNA. You can’t build nation with widespread corruptions and lawlessness. Do these goons feel good in land of pure. Shame.

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saeeds Feb 16, 2020 05:59pm

I always give credit to politician for running this country full of people who are worst than animals.

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khaleel ahmed Feb 16, 2020 06:34pm

I spent 5000 for this show, disappointed how the organisers failed to control the mobs. whom to blame ?

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M. Saeed Feb 16, 2020 06:52pm

Catastrophic insult to Islamabad.

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Raza Feb 16, 2020 07:17pm

This is what happens when you compromise on safety and. security and try to make extra bucks on the side by printing extra tickets and by employing novices at the gates.

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Omar Cheema Feb 16, 2020 08:42pm

is tarah kay events attend karnay ki tameez sirf Karachi walon ko hoti hai. if you want such events to succed in Pakistan, keep PUNJABIS away from them. Punjabis have the worst sense of entitlement in the history of the planet, and they have such fragile egos that they have never learned how to take NO for an answer.

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Aslam Feb 17, 2020 05:34am

Money SHOULD be Refunded. Period.

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A true fact Feb 20, 2020 12:23pm

@Omar Cheema sure sure.. never seen a girl molested in any concert in Karachi right? Karachi walay tu sirf shakal per acid phenkh detay hain if the girl refuses. Such gentlemen they are. I would refrain from making such claims. And comparing which ethnicity behaves less like and animal. This is a Pakistani thing. Nothing more. Lived in Karachi for over 15years it’s only gotten worse.

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