I don’t feel safe in Pakistan: Amna Ilyas

Actress Amna Ilyas made a bombshell revelation stating that she doesn’t feel safe in Pakistan.

“We women, me as well I don’t feel safe,” she said in an interview. “I feel if God forbid, if anything happens to me and another party turns out to be powerful, so the law is just for the poor, not for those who are powerful.”

A per the Sustainable Social Development Organisation’s report, Pakistan is ranked 145th out of 146 on the gender equality index.

“Up to 6,624 rape cases were registered in Punjab in 2023, meaning that one woman was raped every 45 minutes,” the report revealed on International Women’s Day this year.

She was off the view that law has nothing to do with men or women. “I am not afraid to say this and our system, government, and law have to rise to take serious steps to control this tamasha [rape and harassment].”

Moreover, she called for strict punishment of offenders and making an example of them.

She mentioned the Noor Mukadam case stating that the harasser was “comfortably” sitting in jail. “Our judiciary really needs to step up.”