Human Rights minister Shireen Mazari recently shared her personal observation of rendition of Pakistan’s iconic song of the yesteryears ‘Ko Ko Korina’ by Momina Mustehsan and called it ‘horrendous’, but it looked as if Mustehsan was quite disgruntled with the PTI leader’s remarks and she decided to tweet out her fury, thus triggering an unlikely debate!
It all started when Ms Mazari, obviously in her personal capacity, didn’t like the song and brusquely expressed her sentiments, like many others, on Twitter and wrote: Horrendous! Destroyed a great classic – why oh why did Coke Studio allow such a massacre of this classic song?”
Momina Mustehsan a day later decided to respond in failed attempt of politeness. Here’s what she retorted: “Apologies for hurting ur sentiments. It is ur right to judge us & express ur outrage,just like it was our right to exercise our #FreedomOfExpression
. As our Minister of #HumanRights, u should appreciate @cokestudio for allowing us to express ourselves, esp if it was horrendous :)”
Since Ms Mazari had shared her observation being a music lover and not in any professional capacity, she came up with a clarification, stating: “I gave my personal opinion which I am entitled to esp on a non pol issue having to do with music. To each his/her own! And why bring the ministry into it?!”
The silence ensued after the minister ‘ended’ the story with her last response insisting it was her personal opinion and it had nothing to do with the ministry, however Twitterati were quick to chip in with their own humour to add fuel to the fire 😉
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