TikToker Assaulted by Mob in Pakistan's Lahore; FIR Filed

Pakistan PM Imran Khan, is reported to have 'personally' spoken to the IG about the incident.

The Lahore police, on Tuesday, 17 August, registered a case against hundreds of unidentified persons for allegedly assaulting and stealing from a female TikToker and her companions on 14 August. A video of the incident is doing the rounds of the internet.

Meanwhile, as per Sayed Z Bukhari, a representative of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan “personally spoke to IG Punjab.”

Bukhari also said that the police is “catching all culprits involved in manhandling of female tiktoker in Lahore...”

PM @ImranKhanPTI personally spoke to IGPunjab, police is catching all culprits involved in manhandling of female tiktoker in Lahore & those damaging statue of Ranjit Singh at LahoreFort.
These are gross violations of laws & social norms, govt won’t spare a single person involved.

— Sayed Z Bukhari (@sayedzbukhari) August 18, 2021