Kinza Hashmi speaks out on significant security threats

Pakistani actor Kinza Hashmi has disclosed that she is facing major security threats. She said that she has had many instances with stalkers which has made it difficult for her to trust anyone around her.

The actress revealed in an interview that a foreign-based obsessive admirer was able to influence members of her domestic staff by paying them money. She said her seven-year veteran staff had been passing around confidential information behind her back, including photos from her house, her personal possessions and even shots of her prescription.

Hashmi said she was “so shaken” by the breach of privacy and that it “really affected me in terms of trusting people”.

She remembered another unsettling event too where another stalker found their way onto the set of one of her play shows and then tried to find out her residence. But he could not find her apartment number, and was barred from entering.

She stated she had to turn to on-set workers for help with the situation, characterizing such events as very upsetting for public figures.

“Celebrities often face such harassment but it is often difficult to file a case or make a formal complaint,” Hashmi noted.