According to Islamabad police, the suspect, Umar Hayat, was also a TikToker and allegedly wanted a friendship with Sana. However, after repeated rejections, he carried out the brutal act. Sana’s mother filed the FIR, which led to swift police action. The case has sparked nationwide outrage and debate about male entitlement and violent responses to rejection.
Actress Sarah Khan expressed her sorrow over the incident, saying the time has come to reshape drama content. She urged writers and producers to focus on teaching life values and respect instead of glorifying violence. “We must seriously rethink how we raise boys and the kind of lessons we show in dramas,” she wrote in a social media post.
Sarah further stated that television content greatly influences people’s minds, and therefore, the industry holds the power to change public thinking. “Somewhere, the real message has been lost in our dramas. Now we must write with truth, justice, and responsibility,” she added, stressing that actors and writers must acknowledge their role in shaping societal mindsets.
Actress Sanam Saeed called the incident a “wake-up call” for content creators. She emphasized that repeated portrayals of toxic love and entitlement in dramas are planting dangerous ideas in young men’s minds. “Men now feel entitled to threaten or harm women who reject them because that’s what we’ve shown them for years,” she stated.
Similarly, actress Mawra Hocane voiced her anger and grief, saying the glamorization of obsessive love and forced relationships in films and dramas is poisoning young minds. She added that society has long romanticized rejection as a form of hidden love, and this twisted message is fueling real-life tragedies. Mawra warned, “If we don’t stop portraying toxic relationships as romantic, these heartbreaking events will keep happening.”