Hania Aamir has spoken out against what she described as a recurring, distinctly Pakistani pattern of moving from one tragedy to another without resolution, after a video began circulating of police action at a sit-in in Karachi.

The video, shared on the actor's Instagram story, shows police disrupting a sit-in held at Sharea Faisal a day ago by family members of Pakistani sailors who have been held hostage by Somali pirates since April this year.

Aamir called the pattern "deeply frightening," writing that accountability tends to disappear somewhere in the cycle between one crisis and the next.

She went on to question how much more the public is "expected to witness" before real change follows. Aamir's story came a day after some of the sailors' family members said they had been briefly detained by police on the morning of a planned march. Police maintained they had only "engaged" with the protesters in an effort to get them to vacate their site near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs liaison office, and denied using force to disperse them.

Aamir is not the only Pakistani celebrity to have spoken up for the sailors. Mahira Khan, Sabeena Farooq and Talha Anjum have also publicly called for their safe recovery in recent months.