In 2019, after a
terrorist attack in London, she chose to criticize Pakistan's leading newspaper
Dawn for publicizing that the
terrorist had been a man of Pakistani origin, rather than deploring the attack itself or offering condolences. She accused Dawn to pursue an anti-Pakistani agenda. While mobs surrounded the offices of Dawn calling for the editor to be hanged, she left the defense of the
freedom of expression in Pakistan to others, such as
Reporters without Borders. On 21 November 2020, Mazari while citing an online article, wrote on
Twitter that French president "
Macron [was] doing to Muslims was what the Nazis did to the Jews – Muslim children will get ID numbers (other children won't) just as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star on their clothing for identification". French government denounced Mazari's tweet as "fake news and false accusation" and stated that "the proposed ID would be for all children in France". Bina Shah, a writer and
New York Times columnist, said "just like in Pakistan, where as soon as you register a child's birth, the child will get assigned a 13 digit number which is then their
NIC number when they reach 18". Later, Mazari deleted her tweet and issued a clarification stating that the article on the basis of which she had written her tweet has been amended. The online article, which was quoted by Mazari, now includes a clarification stating that the new law will be applied to all children in France.
Foreign Ministry of France thanked Mazari for deleting her tweet and accepted her clarification. Shireen Mazari has also been criticized for her silence on
China's persecution of Uyghurs during a talkshow at
Al Jazeera. However, Mazari said that "there may be such cases in
China and we have taken up those cases with the Chinese and that is how we deal with our allies." ==Works==