More women accuse Ali Zafar of sexual harassment

More women have come forward  with allegation of sexual harassment against Ali Zafar, a day after singer and actor Meesha Shafi accused him of sexual harassment on multiple occasions.

Lauding Meesha Shafi for her"courage for speaking up", Leena Ghani, a make-up artist took to Twitter to accused  Zafar of crossing boundaries of what is appropriate behavior between friends.

"Seeing Meesha’s courage it’s impossible for me to not speak now, not only in support of her but also to say she’s not alone.”

In the many years I have known Ali, he has on several occasions crossed boundaries of what is appropriate behaviour between friends.”

“His behaviour displays a clear lack of respect for women. Inappropriate contact, groping, sexual comments should not fall In the grey area between humour and indecency. Comments that would make your skin crawl and make you feel objectified are not to be reduced to 'a joke'[...] In most cases, women like myself run from a situation and hope to God you never cross paths again. And when by some misfortune, you do, you hide from him. Hoping that his sleazy eyes and hands don't find you again. His hands don't run up and down your waist or hold you too tight while you desperately try to wiggle and run [...] The memories of the times when Ali thought he could get away by saying vulgar things still disgust me,” she wrote.

Journalist Maham Javaid also used her Twitter account to claim that Ali Zafar "tried to kiss her cousin and pull her into a restroom with him".

"This was on a boat on the way to a party at the Yacht Club between 2004-2005. Why don't I remember the date? Because this is what's crazy: in those days such sexual harassment was such a non-issue and simultaneously such a taboo that we hardly spoke about it."

Rejecting all the claims made by Shafi, Ali Zafar said on Thursday: "I intend to take this through the courts of law and to address this professionally and seriously rather than to lodge any allegations here, contesting personal vendettas on social media and in turn disrespecting the movement, my family, the industry and my fans".