When Saba Qamar said she wouldn’t ever move to Karachi back in October, she likely had no idea what kind of storm her comments would kick up. Yet here we are, almost four months later with people continuing to insist that she shouldn’t have said what she did. The latest critic is actress Juvaria Abbasi, who was on Ahmed Ali Butt’s podcast Excuse Me when Butt asked her if she was upset with Qamar for her comments.

“I am not upset at her, but one should respect the place they earn from. Karachi gave her fame, respect,” she replied. When the host interjected to say Qamar loves Karachi, his guest said, “I didn’t like her expression about Karachi because we respect Lahore a lot. I love Lahore, I always go to Lahore, I’ve stayed in Lahore, worked in Lahore. We don’t go around saying ‘Astaghfirullah!’”

Abbasi said all cities were our own as Pakistanis and we can’t go around degrading them.

The 40-second clip appears to be what Qamar was reacting to when she put up a story on her Instagram later, saying, “Freedom of speech is a basic right.” The Muamma star wrote, “everyone deserves the comfort of expressing their thoughts openly” and lamented seeing people “hold back out of fear or restriction”.