Poor little Laila, the Pakistani film actress who is always in the news more for her statements given to journalists than showbiz assignments! Here’s one more. Laila dear is a bit perturbed. She is not happy with some people who perhaps belong to the media. The reason is, according to her, that even when she laughs or talks to someone smilingly at a social event, it somehow becomes a ‘scandal’. Yes, scandal!

Laila, methinks you have no idea what the word means.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, June 8th, 2014

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