Says Sadat Bashir scarred us for life and there's nothing we can do about it
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 29th May, 2018) A student of Bahria College, Islamabad took to Facebook on Monday and told how their teacher keeps harassing girls over and over again.
A girl named Saba Ali wrote, “My biology practical was held on 24th May 2018, I was in the first batch of the bio practical. I came to school at 8.00 a.m sharp that day because I wanted to get my practical notebook checked by my teacher. Everybody warned me beforehand that the examiner is very strict.
What was even more shocking was that he wasn't allowing our teacher to be present inside the lab during our practical but our teacher insisted on being there since she couldn't just leave the female students alone with him. She got permission from the principal and was finally allowed in.”
She went on to say that she does not even have the words to describe the events that took place next but she will try.
“Our examiner Sadat Bashir, was a perverted asshole who groped almost 80 students and passed sleazy comments. He groped me twice, once when I went for the model recognition and he touched my butt and second when I was making the slides. He came behind me and traced my bra strap all the while pretending he was just examining my slide,” she said.
“Thirdly when I was doing my frog dissection he came up to me and asked what kind of a frog it was. I got extremely nervous and told him it was a male frog to which he very inappropriately replied "It's a female frog can't you see the ovaries, you have them inside you too!" All of this made me extremely uncomfortable and I had no idea what to do. None of us said anything to him because he kept threatening to deduct our marks,” the girl added.
“Almost all the girls of the first batch became a victim of that pedophile. The girls of the second batch were warned by their friends so they were obviously even more careful but still some of them experienced the same harassment,” Saba wrote.
She said that she is still completely shaken that we had to go through this. Approximately 80 girls were sexually harassed that day and our teacher told us to keep quite because she didn't want us to lose marks!
“Sadat Bashir scarred us for life and there's nothing we can do about it,” she said.
The girl added that women face sexual harassment on a daily basis today and are blamed for it because of the way they dress or walk or talk.
“But let me tell you something we were in our uniforms, performing our practical. So no it is neither the dressing nor any other factor, the only person to blame is that guy and his sick mentality,” she concluded.
The post is going viral on social media and calls for authorities to take an action against Sadat Bashir.
Following this, many other girls have also come out to speak against the teacher.
A Facebook page ‘Humans of Kinnaird’ shared the screenshots of some more messages the page has received.
One message said, “I just want to tell you something regarding that examiner incident. The same person Saadat Bashir was our biology examiner in FSC 2nd year. And the same things happened with us too. I was in batch 2012-2014 in Army Public School and College, Rawalpindi. It's not just my story, it's a story of 100+ students who remained silent at that time because such incidents were never addressed.”
Another girl said, “We students of Bahria College, Islamabad faced this situation on Friday and recently during a practical exam. The college administration is not taking a stand on this and he is still the examiner and doing these things to girls.”
Incidents of sexual harassment are on the rise in the country. With social media providing a voice to the vicitms, more and more people are coming up with their stories and demanding an action against the culprits.
The campaign continues on Facebook and Twitter and is being encouraged by various celebrities as well, including Meesha Shafi who recently spoke about being sexually harassed at the hands of fellow singer Ali Zafar.
