In response to author and sociologist Nida Kirmani’s remarks about her brother, Meesha Shafi said that the former’s statement was “grossly reductive and offensive to his brilliant pen and courage.” “Faris and I were raised by an extremely hardworking, very financially stressed single mother. We do not come from money. Are you suggesting, just because she put her sweat and tears into managing to give us a private education, we should step aside from our merits and talent and go do something else?” questioned the singer.
She also took a jab at Kirmani teaching at LUMS and said “the elite should only be allowed to teach at universities and educate other elites. How dare they appear on Coke Studio?”
