Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), in a written complaint, has requested TikTok to remove Hareem Shah and Sundal Khattak’s videos from the app.
According to reports, the government has requested TikTok to remove videos posted by Shah and Khattak after they received complaints regarding their videos. A PTA spokesperson shared that they have written to TikTok to remove videos posted by the two women, though he denied receiving a request to suspend or delete Shah and Khattak’s accounts.
The spokesperson explained that PTA wants TikTok to “defuse” the videos.
Shah and Khattak became popular after they shared videos of themselves with high-profile people, including ministers and politicians, on the app. Those videos were widely shared on other social media apps as well. However, the two were thrust into the public eye after Shah shared a video of herself walking around a conference room at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The video sparked a controversy prompting the government to order an inquiry into the matter.
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Other videos of Hareem — featuring Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed and Punjab Information Minister Fayazul Hasan Chohan — had also gone viral on the internet with the claim that Rasheed had “also sent Hareem inappropriate videos”.
“What about all those naked videos you used to send me have you forgotten about them?” Hareem can be heard as saying to the federal minister in one of the videos of their telephonic conversation, following which Rasheed abruptly disconnected the call.
While the videos were removed by Hareem, it wasn’t later that they went viral over the internet, drawing mixed reactions. Amid all the criticism facing the internet star, Hareem on December 31 was reported to have left the country and applied for Canadian citizenship.
