Director-General (DG) Sindh Rangers Major-General Iftikhar Hassan Chaudhary has said that Pakistan is not as bad it is portrayed in the international media, Geo News has reported. He was speaking at Dow University in an event to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse day on Monday.
He said that Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Oscar-winning film Saving Face was made after three incidents of acid attacks were reported in Pakistan. He went on to add that more than 800 incidents of acid attacks were reported in London but no film was made and neither did the media report on it.
DG Rangers further said, “There have been 10,000 knife attacks in the UK, but no one knows. Do you think London is safe? We are not as bad as we are portrayed, and we have also started to think negatively about ourselves due to the constant negative portrayal.”
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s production house SOC Films has been nominated in two Emmy Award categories.
Sharmeen is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker who took home Oscars for 2015’s A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which explored the aftermath of an attempted honour killing, and 2012’s Saving Face, which highlighted acid attacks on women in Pakistan.
