Shaniera Akram schools journalist who forgot her name

Shaniera Akram has a name and don’t you forget it!

Akram, and an anonymous woman, recently reminded journalist Nadeem Farooq Paracha that she is more than just the wife of former cricketer Wasim Akram. During a panel discussion at the Islamabad Literature Festival, between Fasi Zaka, Ali Aftab Saeed, George Fulton and Nadeem Paracha, the latter repeatedly referred to Shaniera as “Wasim Akram's wife”.

"She has a name," a woman from the audience shot back, to huge applause.

Once the video of the incident hit the internet, it caught the attention of Shaniera Akram herself. She tweeted: "Who is this amazing woman? #SheHasAName You go girl!"

Later she even responded to a snide comment about her. “If you are talking about someone on stage at a literacy festival you should at least give them the dignity of a name,” she wrote on Twitter, “I am not a celebrity but I have earned my name, thank you very much.”