Wasim Akram and Adnan Malik Join Shaniera Akram in #SayNoToPlastic Drive

Wife of Cricket legend Wasim Akram and our favorite ‘bhabi’ Shaniera Akram recently posted an eye-opening video of Karachi’s beach on her Instagram urging the residents to play their part in cutting down the use of plastic.

In the video, she shows her walking on Seaview which is polluted by plastic bags.

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There is no bigger heartbreak than the love one has for our city and our beach. Karachi and all who live here on our land and in our waters, are literally choking to death. This has been so hard for me to post but if we really want to clean up our city then now is the time because Karachi really needs our help. YES we need better garbage disposal, YES we need to enforce recycling systems but we also need to start playing our role. Did you know a plastic bag takes between 1-10 000 years or more to decompose? We don’t need more bandaids of beach clean ups we need to get to the root of the problem! This is our home and we need to look after it. Karachi is imposing a ban on plastic bags from Oct 1st but it’s up to us to enforce it. Stop the use of plastic bags and polystyrene containers in your home and office NOW. Everyone must play a part so that we can all have a better future. If just half of us stop the use of non recyclable plastics that will make an incredible difference already . Make the change so that our city has a chance. Ask for paper and say no to plastic ! #LetsCleanKarachiForGood #SayNoToPlastic #PaperIsSafer #OurCityIsChoking #SayNoToRestaurantsWithPolystyrene #UseMaterialShoppingBags #AskForPaperBags #KarachiNeedsOurHelp

A post shared by Shaniera Akram (@iamshaniera) on Aug 9, 2019 at 2:10am PDT

She wrote “There is no bigger heartbreak than the loved one has for our city and our beach. Karachi and all who live here on our land and in our waters are literally choking to death,”

She also emphasized that our city needs us more than ever right now.

Replying to his wife on Twitter, Wasim Akram also supports #SayNoToPlastic campaign along with his wife Shaniera Akram.

Cricket legend said that Karachi has been effected with land pollution for over a decade. “For years I have walked on our beach with tears in my eyes, rubbish tossed into the ocean & spewing back out. Our city is dying from waste & pollution, our kids suffering allergies from breathing burning plastic. This has to stop now, we ALL have to take ownership,” he wrote on Twitter.

Shaniera took an oath that she’ll do her best to cut down the use of plastic and asked who is with her upon which director/actor Adnan Malik also shows his support by stating, “I’m with you. Got my cloth bags ready and reuseable water bottle ready. Will struggle with restaurants that deliver with plastic packaging but will pressurize them to seek change. Let’s do this!”

Meanwhile, Sindh government announced plans to make the province plastic bag-free by October 2019.