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Member of the National Assembly Sharmila Faruqui is calling a spade a spade — she slammed screenwriter Khalilur Rehman Qamar for his misogyny and actor Danish Taimoor for his ‘disgusting’ remarks on marriage.

In an appearance on Waseem Badami’s ARY show Har Lamha Purjosh, the MNA was first asked what advice she would give Qamar. Her answer was straightforward: “I don’t like him. I don’t want to talk about him. He’s such a misogynist.”

When Badami asked if she believed women actors should stop working with the writer, she said no one should watch his dramas or produce shows with him and supported a complete boycott of Qamar.

“Because of his very below-the-belt remarks, which are unbecoming for a man. People like this should be shown the door.”

Strangely, the complete episode uploaded to YouTube has Qamar’s name redacted, however, it remains present in a smaller clip uploaded to the show’s YouTube channel.

There is no shortage of examples when it comes to Qamar’s misogyny. The self-proclaimed expert on relationships and women has — to list a few instances — treated Marvi Sirmed disrespectfully during a debate about the ‘Mera Jism Meri Marzi’ slogan advocating consent, his immature tweet about Mahira Khan, criticising her for expressing differing opinions, and his infamous ‘do takkay ki aurat’ dialogue, later weaponised by other misogynistic men.

Danish Taimoor

Faruqui called Taimoor “another character” and said his wife, actor Ayeza Khan, was a good, innocent woman.

“I salute her because of the decency with which she sat and listened to him when he said he’s done her a favour because he’s allowed to marry four times, but at present, he was in love with her. That was disgusting.”

Badami attempted to play devil’s advocate and quoted people who questioned why outsiders had an issue when the husband and wife were okay with the matter.

“In our society, wives [and] women endure a lot. I think they were sitting on a live show. What could she [Ayeza] have said? Who knows if she said something to him when they went home?

“In our society, where women are oppressed and considered a sidekick, when you’re a star, maybe give people good advice.”

The MNA was, of course, referring to the infamous moment when Taimoor, during his Ramazan transmission, entirely unprovoked, threw in his thoughts on multiple marriages.

“If God has given permission for something, then He has given permission for it. That I’m not doing it, is a different matter. I say this in front of her [Ayeza] and today I’m saying it front of everyone, I am allowed to marry four times. That I’m not doing it is another matter entirely. God has given me this permission, so no one can snatch that right from me. But it’s because of my love and respect for her, that for now, I want to spend my life with her.”

Nadia Khan

When television host Nadia Khan came up, Faruqui said she did not want to comment on her and that Nadia was “not worth” her comment.

Her remarks come two years after Nadia made a video with Faruqui’s mother Anisa, in which she ‘complimented’ her makeup and sense of style. Though this would ordinarily seem like a perfectly nice thing to do, this video didn’t seem to have been made with the intention of being entirely complimentary.

At the time, the MNA called the video a mockery and vowed legal action, later filing a case with the FIA against the TV show host.