{"id":5286,"date":"2026-08-29T07:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:51:43","slug":"more-celebrities-call-for-accountability-after-pims-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/?p=5286","title":{"rendered":"More celebrities call for accountability after PIMS tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of grief, anger and frustration has swept across Pakistani celebrities\u2019 social media this week as stars reacted to the deaths of 14 newborns in the PIMS fire and a string of other tragedies, questioning how many more lives must be lost before those responsible are held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Sonya Hussyn shared a news report on Instagram about a distressed family protesting outside a private hospital in Karachi\u2019s Nazimabad area.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the situation a sign of how far things had deteriorated, she wrote that the incident \u201ccould be a potential case of human trafficking\u201d. \u201cThings have reached a terrifying point in Pakistan,\u201d she wrote, describing the incident as a \u201chorrifying reality that demands immediate action\u201d and urging authorities to wake up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/picture-281787929892-2\/picture-281787929892-2.png\" alt=\"Photo: SonyaHussayn\/Instagrm\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Screengrab: SonyaHussyn\/Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actor Naimal Khawar also took to Instagram Stories to express her despair over recent events. \u201cAngry, furious, scared and heartbroken, every day there is another story,\u201d she wrote, questioning whether children and women were safe anywhere anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many more mothers have to lose their children? How many more girls have to suffer before enough is enough?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>She said her heart was with \u201cthe families who lost their newborns at PIMS, with Hina Javaid, and with every woman and girl who had faced unimaginable violence\u201d, praying that they be granted\u00a0<em>sabr<\/em>\u00a0and justice.<\/p>\n<p>She added that no tear or injustice goes unseen and that everyone would one day be held accountable before God. \u201cMay Allah protect our children and women. Ameen,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/picture-291787929891-1\/picture-291787929891-1.png\" alt=\"Photo: NaimalKhawar\/Instagram\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Screengrab: NaimalKhawar\/Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Veteran actor Bushra Ansari shared a video message addressing the deaths of the 14 newborns at PIMS, focusing on what she described as negligence and the treatment of the grieving families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of incidents are happening before us. These 14 kids passed away before even opening their eyes; there is a lot of negligence,\u201d she said, adding that she could not begin to describe what the bereaved parents were going through.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari said she had recorded the video to question Health Minister Mustafa Kamal over his treatment of the victims\u2019 families. \u201cThis is not the way to treat or speak to people. For God\u2019s sake, think of how you\u2019re behaving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Questioning the minister\u2019s conduct, she added: \u201cYou can\u2019t scold them at the moment when they\u2019re going through such grief. People will complain about it [to you], and they\u2019re distressed, and you\u2019re scolding them?\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DcjVxkehagL\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DcjVxkehagL\/embed\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=658&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Ftribune.com.pk&amp;rp=%2Fstory%2F2626254%2Fmore-celebrities-call-for-accountability-after-pims-tragedy-womens-deaths#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A16020.200000001118%2C%22ls%22%3A15033.200000001118%2C%22le%22%3A15470.5%7D\" height=\"1028\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Ansari urged the minister to either do the job he was paid for or \u201ckeep your head down and listen to people\u2019s complaints\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Durefishan Saleem took a different approach, using her Instagram Stories to focus on accountability and the role of parents in raising boys.<\/p>\n<p>Urging parents to \u201craise better men\u201d, she addressed men who had already reached adulthood, writing: \u201cTake accountability for the men you have chosen to become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She urged women to \u201cknow the men around you\u201d and warned against confusing \u201ca good reputation with good character\u201d. She also called on people to protect children and women rather than look away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/picture-271787929892-3\/picture-271787929892-3.png\" alt=\"Photo: Durefishan Saleem\/Instagram\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Screengrab: Durefishan Saleem\/Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mahira Khan also weighed in, describing the deaths and other tragedies as the result of what she characterised as negligence, abuse of power, misogyny and silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many more? When did it get this bad?\u201d she wrote, saying she felt \u201csick to my stomach\u201d and \u201chopeless to the core\u201d while watching the news and could not imagine the pain of those directly affected.<\/p>\n<p>Khan named the \u201cgrieving mother of Aizel, family of Mir Raza, the parents of Hina Javaid, the father of Ayat Noor, and the 14 parents of the newborns lost at PIMS\u201d, adding that the list \u201cgoes on and on\u201d. \u201cWho cares who is responsible? How does it even matter, when nobody has ever been held responsible?\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Khan ended her post with a prayer that her children would one day see a better Pakistan. She also referenced a line from Faiz Ahmed Faiz\u2019s revolutionary poem\u00a0<em>Hum Dekhenge<\/em>, invoking its imagery of oppression and injustice eventually giving way.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcj7Wz3snmx\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">\n<div class=\"iframely-embed\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcj7Wz3snmx\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-iframely-url=\"https:\/\/iframely.net\/api\/iframe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FDcj7Wz3snmx%2F%3Futm_source%3Dig_web_copy_link%26igsi%3DMzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&amp;key=73b4a3e6895a3640b0439dc45f68e4f8\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcj7Wz3snmx\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2626005\/pakistani-celebrities-demand-accountability-after-pims-fire-kills-14-newborn-babies\" rel=\"nofollow\">Several other celebrities<\/a>\u00a0have also spoken out over the PIMS fire and other incidents. Their posts have echoed calls for accountability and raised concerns about what they see as wider failures in systems meant to protect vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p>The outpouring has also brought renewed attention to safety standards at hospitals and other institutions responsible for public welfare. While celebrities have expressed their grief and frustration online, the families affected by the PIMS fire and the cases involving Hina Javaid, Aizel, Mir Raza and Ayat Noor continue to seek transparent investigations and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>For them, the demand remains the same: that justice should not disappear once public attention moves on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of grief, anger and frustration has swept across Pakistani celebrities\u2019 social media this week as stars reacted to the deaths of 14 newborns in the PIMS fire and a string of other tragedies, questioning how many more lives must be lost before those responsible are held accountable. Actor Sonya Hussyn shared a news &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}