Dozens of young people, including girls, have lost their lives across the country due to making videos on the social media app TikTok, and in a few months, 10 TikTokers have been killed in Karachi alone.
According to Express News, the trend of making tic-tac-toe videos and adding adventure to them is on the rise among the younger generation. Despite such incidents being reported, public awareness has not been raised and these incidents are still going on continuously, as a result of which dozens have been killed across the country and 10 in Karachi in a few months.
In the same incident of firing in Garden area of Karachi, 4 Tuck Tuckers, mother and daughter were killed in firing in Quaidabad, while in TikToker, in Saeedabad, acid was thrown on the wife, while in countless incidents, security guards They were shot.
In the same way, there were many incidents in which people were killed by firing and even many people were killed who were making videos by simply putting guns on their chests or on their heads.
Maskan, Aamir and their two friends Sajjad and Rehan were killed in a shootout in the Garden area in Karachi in February this year.
In the last week of June, in Sherpao Colony area of Quaidabad, an accused named Ishaq repeatedly forbade his tickling wife Rimsha from making a video but she refused and then he broke into the house and opened fire which resulted in not only his His wife Kausar, who came to his rescue, was also killed.
In Gulshan-e-Maymar, security guard Anwar Tak made a video of TikTok while carrying a rifle on his chest and left the place. Two days ago, her ex-husband Zeeshan threw acid on his wife in Saeedabad area and people were injured in several incidents.
If you look at the overall situation across the country, many people are seen jumping into canals, swimming pools, getting into accidents and sometimes coming in front of a moving train and taking away their right to live on their own, so that people Make more risky play videos than any positive activity on the talk app.
Civil society groups say the government has banned TikTok several times in the past, and now that such incidents are on the rise, the government should seriously consider a permanent ban.