Celebs who flew to Canada for awards were also doing their civic duty, says designer Feeha Jamshed

The furore over celebrities missing the elections for the Hum Awards is yet to subside, and the latest to contribute to the debate is designer Feeha Jamshed.

In her view, the celebrities who flew out to Toronto in order to rehearse for the award show (that takes place today) were also performing a civic duty:

Feeha writes that "...giving a progressive, softer image of Pakistan that our politicians, new or international media [fails] to do" is also a civic duty in her books. She goes on to add that participating in "cultural trade between two countries... so that the expat community can see what we have achieved with such little resources" is also a form of civic duty.

In her note, she emphasises that voting doesn't entitle us to judge other people and we should in fact question the people around us in Pakistan who didn't vote about why they failed to do so rather than the stars who had flown out of the country to work.