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“Pakistan needs to stop handing out YouTube visas”: Ushna Shah lashes out at Rosie Gabrielle

Karachi: Pakistani actress Ushna Shah has lashed out at Canadian vlogger Rosie Gabrielle after the YouTuber took to social media and highlighted the plight of Hunza locals.

Published 4 years ago on Jun 20th 2021, 1:03 am

By Web Desk

According to details, the foreigner YouTuber had shared a few images on Instagram from her recent trip to Hunza and called out local tourists for 'destroying Hunza's culture with drugs and partying.'

Responding to Gabrielle's reservations, Ushna Shah severely criticized the vlogger and asked her to stop being judgmental and condescending.

"You know what we don't appreciate? Judgmental, condescending, "white saviour" wanna-be's. We don't need YOU to 'fix us'. Government of Pakistan needs to stop handing out YouTube visas,” Ushna shared on her Instagram.

Gabrielle had shared the state of Hunza when the tourism is at its peak.

“As tourism rises in Pakistan, especially local tourists, there is a growing problem that needs to be immediately addressed before it’s too late. Since Covid happened and travelling outside the country has decreased, there’s been an influx of people flocking north," she began, adding, "But instead of bringing just their smiles and leaving only good memories, they are bringing bad behaviours, drugs, vulgarity, rave parties and leaving a lot of TRASH!"

She went on to comment, "One of my worst experiences in Pakistan was when I started to go north. If you followed me then, you’d see I almost had a nervous breakdown from the amount of disturbance I received from local tourists. I can’t even imagine what locals experience every day. It was so bad I ran far into the mountains for many weeks to escape these people."

“I understand that people need to express themselves, release pent-up energies and get out of their suffocating lives." She added, "But coming to sacred land, feeling privileged and entitled to destroy it, bringing your toxic habits to innocent communities is NOT okay! By introducing these behaviours and substances you are destroying a culture. By leaving your trash, you're demolishing the land and disrespecting the house of God,” she concluded.