ISLAMABAD – Pakistani actress Mehwish Hayat recently attended an event at aprivate university, where she addressed the criticisms she has been facingever since she has received prestigious Tamgha-e-Imtiaz award.
While speaking at a event on women empowerment at Bahria University, theactress said, “Criticize my work and it’s okay, but why my morals?”.Actress had some powerful message for the young girls in the audiences whoare soon to enter professional life.
Mehwish further added that despite the difficulties she faced in hercareer, she chose to stay firm on her choices and went against all odds toprove herself as an actor.
The event was also attended by some other notable women of Pakistanincluding Natalia Gul, Parveen Saeed, Hija Kamran, Zainab Ansari andMehwish Hayat as Chief Guest.
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Mehwish was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on March 23 along with 171 otherpeople. She has been highly criticized for receiving such prestigiousaward, but the actor took all the criticisms with much poise. “Just becausewe chose to become actors doesn’t mean we have forgotten our morals,earlier she said in an interview to a private news channel.
