‘Disturbing, disastrous’: TikTokers in Pakistan starting wildfires for videos
A video of Pakistani actor and TikToker Humaira Asghar has drawn flak on social media as she changed into shot strolling in a silver ball robe in the front of a woodland hearthplace raging in the back of her. Terming the social media fashion of posing in the front of wildfire traumatic and disastrous, the chairperson of the Islamabad Wildlife Management board stated the actor ought to were preserving a bucket of water to extinguish the hearthplace in place of glamourising it.
“This is a traumatic & disastrous fashion on Tik Tok! Young humans determined four fans are placing hearthplace to our forests at some stage in this hot & dry season! In Australia it’s miles lifetime imprisonment for folks who begin wildfires. We want to introduce comparable legislation @WildlifeBoard,” Rina S Khan tweeted.
This, in Pakistan, has in truth come to be a fashion as in advance this month a person changed into arrested in Abbottabad for deliberately beginning a woodland hearthplace for the history of a video. However, Asghar clarified that she did now no longer begin the hearthplace and there has been no damage in making videos.
Pakistan is the 8th maximum inclined usa to intense climate as a result of weather alternate and temperatures have pealed fifty one stages celsius in elements of Pakistan in latest days. Forest fires are not unusualplace from mid-April via to the stop of July as a result of the boom in temperature.
Pakistani media stated a video of humans set a woodland on hearthplace at Margalla Hills for the TikTok video surfaced in which they can be visible placing the woodland on hearthplace with a lighter.
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