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You don’t need to be at the height of your youth to be in your prime and there is no better example of this than Bushra Ansari, who is still at the top of her acting game after decades in the industry.

The actor appeared on her niece Zara Noor Abbas’ Instagram stories on Wednesday to tell her haters they need to work harder.

“They’ll say someone’s too old, someone’s too fat… they’re animals,” she said while enjoying some mangoes.

When pressed further on who these people were by Zara’s husband Asad Siddiqui, she said, “If you look at their profiles on social media, there are birds on them, there should be dogs there.”

She then realised she likes dogs and said maybe they weren’t fit for the job. She said maybe snakes would work better.

That’s when Ansari’s sister Asma Abbas walked in to say even she was tired of hearing the same old things. “I came to say they need to come up with something new. This ‘old mare’ and ‘one foot in the grave’, we’ve gotten bored of this.”

Ansari suggested the pair should do something illegal so that their opps actually have something to talk about aside from their ages.

She added that they were probably just jealous because she and her sister were active despite their age, when their critics were probably just sitting around all day.

Ansari, one of Pakistan’s most senior actors with a broad portfolio of acting projects, has to bear with ageist comments and attitudes both from the public and occasionally from within the industry.

She does have a habit of not mincing words when she thinks something isn’t right, so the disses she dished out weren’t really a surprise but they were entirely welcome for a society that has nothing better to do than criticise others.