LONDON: Minister of Information Marriyum Aurangzeb was harassed by a group of PML-N’s political opponents while she was in a coffee shop in London, United Kingdom. Information Minister was in a café near Marble Arch station to buy coffee where she was heckled by a group of PTI supporters, who surrounded minister and began yelling at her. Crowd also continued to videotape Aurangzeb.

Women supporters of PTI continued to target her with inappropriate allegations, while also accusing her of being a thief.

Shouting in coffee shop, a woman claimed, “Marriyum Aurangzeb is spending Pakistan’s looted money in London.”

PTI protestors swarmed around Marriyum and did not let her be during what appeared to be her time off from her official duties as a minister. After video of incident went viral on social media, netizens including Mariyum’s PML-N colleague Miftah Ismail and Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari  came to minister’s defence and criticised PTI for instigating hatred and propagating misbehaviour among its supporters who harass people that don’t agree with their party’s ideology. Mariyum herself also called out attack and harassment she faced in coffee shop, terming it a “toxic impact” of Imran Khan’s “politics of hate and divisiveness”.

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 26 2022

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