A video emerged on social media on Thursday showing a woman irately slapping an old man and asking him to apologise on a bus travelling from Multan to Islamabad.
The man had allegedly been surreptitiously touching the woman for nearly six hours, and his actions only came to light when he attempted to remove her dupatta from her back and grab her body by force.
Due to a medical condition that numbed sensation in her back, the woman didn't realise sooner that she was essentially being assaulted.
The video that was initially made public by a Facebook user Zahra Nain, shows an elderly man apologising while the woman in the video accuses him of “constantly touching her back.” According to the Facebook post, the woman initially didn’t realise that someone was touching her due to the ‘tingling feel’ she is used to getting on her back because of a herniated disc. It was after someone tried to take off her dupatta that she felt a force on her body that she figured out that he was allegedly molesting her.
As soon as the video went public, several other platforms also shared it, condemning the elderly man who harassed her and lauding the woman for taking charge of the situation.
Social media has been on fire since then:
This Hobbit was trying to touch this lady in a bus then she stood for herself alone & slapped this rascal #Pakistan
A common experience on mass transit, the anonymous woman's reaction to the situation resonated with many who had been through something similar.
Many congratulated the woman in the video for standing up for herself, wishing they'd been able to do the same.
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