A common misconception which runs in the minds of the followers and preachers of public figures is that they think they are not entitled to have a private life. This can be easily judged from the fact how Mahira Khan was ambushed by the entire country when her pictures of smoking-break with Indian actor Ranbir Kapoor came out.

From her dress to sharing a smoke in a public setting with a man, people couldn’t control their judgment regarding the actress who has been representing Pakistan in all sorts of various international occasions. But why did we do this? We were judging a person, a woman based on how she chose her private life?

All of this Can be Perfectly Summarized in a Piece Written by Pakistani Actor and Host, Ahsan Khan!

In a piece Ahsan Khan wrote, he mentioned how none of his feelings direct to his relationship with Mahira, but concerns how the people of Pakistan reacted towards the pictures which surfaced on the internet for days and weeks.

In Making Pakistanis Realise how Mahira Khan has Fulfilled her Roles as a Public Figure, here’s what Ahsan Wrote:

I have known Mahira for about 10 years. I have always found her to be a resourceful, competent and responsible actor. I feel that she is a remarkably capable model. And I have always seen her conduct herself with dignity, honor, and class in public. Therefore, she has, in my opinion, fulfilled her responsibilities as a celebrity for more than 10 years and never once failed her fans, friends, family members, and countrymen.

The Actor then Shared how Bickering Someone has Become a Habit of Pakistanis:

Over the years, moral outrage has become a national habit and pastime of the Pakistani populace. We are outraged every time someone acts in a manner that is at odds with our own values. We get angry when anyone we like, dislike, envy, or revere, asserts his rights and acts in a manner that we can find fault with. We seem to have a pathological need to enforce behavioral, communal, cultural, ethical, moral, religious, social and societal norms that we believe in and, in some cases, those that we don’t even believe in ourselves.

All of this makes sense – not just because Ahsan Khan belongs to the same world as Mahira because deep down, she is a human who deserves to live her life without cameras in her direction at all times.

There is nothing noble, altruistic or honorable about the afore-mentioned moral outrage. It is wielded by people who have need to enforce their status as good people; who need to validate their own lives by criticising those led by others; who are insecure, envious, jealous, or spiteful, and, in some cases, all four; who are uneducated; who covet attention; and who, almost always, have a great deal of free time on their hands. 

Ahsan Went on, Answering the Very Basic Question Every Other Pakistani Highlighted – “Would you allow your wife or sister to wear the similar revealing clothes?”

Would I allow my wife to wear similarly revealing clothes?

I do not allow, or disallow, my wife, to wear anything. She decides what to wear on her own and she makes good choices based on occasion, weather, fashion, style, comfort, personal values, and a lot of other factors. That is how I believe Mahira made her choice of dress as well. She needs no one to allow her to dress up the way she wants to.

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What Ahsan Khan stated makes a lot of sense, given how everyone cornered Mahira Khan who never painted her image as a saint, but just a human who wishes to enjoy her life.