Actor Momina Iqbal has taken a dig at political figures producing “high-quality social media content”, and urged social media personalities to leave their respective platforms as they might feel outshined.

 

“I request all TikTokers, YouTubers and actors to leave their social media platforms as all our politicians have joined social media and they are doing it better than us. Especially their content creators and camera men,” she wrote in an Instagram story.

 

 

On a very serious tone, she added, that people were not fools. “We know they go to their constituencies for just 10 to 15 minutes and vanish afterwards.”

 

“They will protect us?” she questioned.

 

In reference to recent rains and floods in major parts of the country, she said that politicians live in their “palaces and they would not know the pain of a common man who have built their homes with sweat and blood”.

 

Pakistan is facing one of its worst monsoon flood seasons in decades as relentless rains and flash floods devastate homes in both Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

 

The catastrophe has revived memories of the catastrophic 2022 floods that submerged a third of the country, displaced millions and caused billions in damages. This year, the simultaneous flooding of three major rivers in Punjab for the first time in history has worsened the crisis.

 

Earlier, Pakistani actress and singer Arifa Siddiqui also shared a video of the damage to her home due to flood water.