Maryam Nawaz orders action against employee who pushed woman on bus

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has ordered action against an employee of a transport company who pushed a woman as she boarded a bus, saying that dismissing him from the job would not be enough.

In a statement posted on X, the chief minister said the employee should be made to apologise to the woman in front of everyone. Transport company staff were not hired to push members of the public around, she said.

She directed that the employee be taken to the woman's home and made to apologise to her there in front of the people present. She said she would speak to the district police officer about the case at once.

Aaj News reported the incident and the statement. The report did not name the transport company, the employee or the woman, and did not say where the incident took place or when. No police statement or first information report on the bus incident was cited in the report.

The statement came after a separate case in Faisalabad, where a man who forced his way into a women-only area of a shopping mall assaulted a woman sales assistant, according to Aaj News. Police arrested the man after CCTV footage of the incident emerged and the chief minister took notice of it.

Maryam Nawaz later shared on X a video of the woman slapping the arrested man at a police station. In that statement she said anyone who raises a hand against a helpless woman would face the same humiliation, and that those who exploit vulnerable citizens would not be allowed to escape punishment.