“It is not easy to speak out.. but it is harder to stay silent. My conscience will not allow it anymore #MeToo,” Shafi wrote.
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"Sharing this because I believe that by speaking out about my own experience of sexual harassment, I will break the culture of silence that permeates through our society. It is not easy to speak out.. but it is harder to stay silent. My conscience will not allow it anymore #MeToo," read Shafi's tweet, with the following note attached as a picture:
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Shafi's tweet comes just after a week of a wave of Pakistani women on Twitter sharing their stories of sexual harassment, as well as naming and shaming the men involved.
On April 11, Pakistani Twitter user Mehravar Ali revealed screenshots of Pakistan's biggest music streaming website's CEO Khalid Bajwa harassing her and soliciting photos.
"I felt uncomfortable and overpowered by a man twice my age," wrote Mehravar Ali, who also alleged that she was also subject to unwelcome hugs by him.
As a result, Bajwa stepped down from his position as CEO.
This began a movement of Pakistani women and girls exposing popular and non-popular men for sexual harassment, coercion, and sending/soliciting photos of a sexual nature. Many of these men have now left Twitter.
"These incidences did not happen when I was young. This happened to me despite the fact that I'm an empowered, accomplished woman who is known for speaking her mind! This happened to me as a mother of two children," Shafi specifies in her note. "We only have our voices and the time has come to use them."
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