KARACHI: After days of online bickering and bullying, Resham has shared a video of herself apologising to nation for her plastic dumping fiasco, this time, without offering any justifications. Taking to her Instagram actress said in a clip, “First of all, please accept my apology because what happened shouldn’t have happened.

It happened because of my carelessness and was not intentional. For that, I apologise to entire nation.” She went on to clarify, “I am against littering, polluting, and agree that keeping our country clean is our responsibility. I’m also human and every human makes mistakes, this was mine.” Going on to dub it “biggest mistake” of her career, Resham vowed that she would ensure nothing similar ever transpires again. She concluded her video with an apology from “bottom of my heart.” Resham has been trending on Twitter since Monday, with a clip of her dumping plastic into floodwater doing the rounds.

Many have been calling her out for her reckless endeavour to feed fish, while littering on camera, despite being a public figure and an educated one at that. From asking officials to charge her for this “criminal offence” to schooling her about irreparable consequences of her “kindness,” people have been flooding to micro-blogging site to bring attention to her “good deed.” Among advocates for climate change taken aback by Resham’s doing, was Shaniera Akram, who has been actively condemning her counterproductive attempt to salvage marine life. But actor Armeena Khan, who also tweeted against “throwing plastic into rivers and oceans” after Resham’s video surfaced without mentioning any names isn’t happy with Shaniera’s persistent tweeting against Resham. When a user asked activist, “I don’t understand whether you’re angry because she threw meat and plastic into river or because she threw meat and plastic into river on camera,” Shaniera clarified, “Both! It’s doing my head in.”

Retweeting her response, Armeena wrote, “Punching down again eh, Shaniera? Imagine tweeting three times successively within in a course 12 hours for someone whom you know can’t attack back. I wonder what you’re really after.” In another tweet, Armeena asserted, “There is never a need to bring one woman down to elevate other. People are complicated and we all have shades of grey. Let’s start with that. No one here is perfect.” She did not tag or mention any names. A third tweet of hers read: “My Grandma (God bless her soul) used to say: ‘Chotay bartan mein ziada parh jaye tow uss sey sambhala nahi jaata.’ Applicable to all loud mouth, virtue signaling, with a holier than thou attitude bullies.”

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 16 2022

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