Zara Noor Abbas celebrates her daughter’s first birthday with the cutest message
The actor revealed she's also written a letter for her daughter to read when she grows up.
With the news cycle bringing word of one tragedy after another targeting children, many Pakistanis are worried for the safety of their young ones. Among them is actor Zara Noor Abbas, who is also wondering how she can protect her children as the country passes through “the worst times”.
In a story posted on her Instagram account on Sunday, she said things were so bad “not because we are seeing rape and murder everywhere; but because there is no example being made out of something done so often and easily”.
She said it does look easy to commit these horrific crimes because they’re “happening all the time”. So much so, that the issue was no longer even gendered.
The actor asked how someone was to save their children in such times, questioning whether it would be okay to take the law into one’s own hands. The law, she said, “does seem to behave like a sixth grader”.
“Let’s dig the grave again because the first time we didn’t get it right,” wrote the actor, possibly referring to the recent exhumation of the body of young business owner, Mir Raza Ali. His body was autopsied for a second time after a court order.
While investigators initially focused on the possibility of his death being a suicide, the second autopsy confirmed he had been shot in the back and subjected to torture.
Abbas also talked about the suggestion that the suspect in a recent rape and murder of a child in Karachi should receive counselling and support for his mental health because he was 17 years old and not an adult.
“But then what do I do?” she asked. “How do I protect my children?”
The actor is the latest of many celebrities reacting to two horrific tragedies that have shaken Karachi in the last few days. Ali, who had gone missing on July 28, was found dead two days later in the city’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area.
The case gained even more attention when reports of a flawed autopsy were used by the victim’s family to request a second post-mortem examination.
On Tuesday, a young girl died after being raped in Qayyumabad. Her parents registered a case with the police after which the primary suspect — a teenage relative of the girl who had taken her out to buy something before bringing her back unconscious — was arrested on Wednesday.