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Be careful with slogans at Azaadi March, advises Mahira Khan

She ended up receiving hate and blistering criticism on social media to the point where she temporarily deactivated her account. Social media users assumed that she criticized the slogan 'Mera Jism Meri Marzi-My Body My Choice'.

Mahira Khan confronted backlash on social media for advising the proponents of Aurat March to be careful with the slogans.

“We don’t march for ourselves. We march for those who cannot march for themselves,” said Mahira Khan in a tweet.

She further added that “As a privileged woman I march for those who are not in my position, who don’t have the basic rights that I have enjoyed since I was born.”

In a separate note posted along with her tweet, Mahira Khan urged that the intention of the movement should be to help the disadvantaged women who cannot fight for their rights and not to divert from the real cause. She, particularly, pointed out the inappropriate slogans that stirred debate and retaliation from people.

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“Can we then please be careful with the slogans and words we put out? Can we hold placards of the causes we are fighting for, the issues we want to be resolved, the basic rights and needs of those who suffer because they are either unaware of their rights or they are not given to them?

“Can we hold banners of laws we would like to be put into place and those that have harmed women over the years? Don’t we want as many people as possible to understand why we march?” Mahira Khan asked in a note shared on her Twitter account.

She mentioned that she is writing “out of pure observation” and the organizers who have been working to champion the cause of women’s rights “have a better idea”.

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But she ended up receiving hate and blistering criticism on social media to the point where she temporarily deactivated her account. Social media users assumed that she criticized the slogan ‘Mera Jism Meri Marzi-My Body My Choice’.

Mahira Khan, however, clarified that she was not talking about it but many other outrageous slogans that were raised at previous Aurat March that inadvertently dissuade people from supporting the movement.