Shireen Mazari slams daughter for witchcraft tweet

ISLAMABAD: Federal Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari on Wednesday lashed out at her own daughter for what she called a law personalized unsubstantiated attack on the First Lady Bushra Bibi.

“I am ashamed you would resort to such low personalised unsubstantiated attacks esp since as a lawyer u shd know without any proof hurling such accusations is defamation. When all substantive issue-based criticism fails this level of a base personal attack is plain shameful,” Ms Mazari wrote in response to her daughter Imaan Zainab Mazari’s tweet.

Earlier, Imaan said that “if the country was to be run by witchcraft, then why is the money of this nation being wasted on such a large cabinet. The country is being ridiculed with sorcery and you don’t even want to talk about sorcerers. That will never happen.”

She was referring to the criticism being hurled at senior journalist Asma Shirazi over her BBC article which has questioned the government’s handling of economy.

I am ashamed you would resort to such low personalised unsubstantiated attacks esp since as a lawyer u shd know without any proof hurling such accusations is defamation. When all substantive issue-based criticism fails this level of a base personal attack is plain shameful. https://t.co/drbLN5bq9w

— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) October 20, 2021