UAE-born Pakistani actress Saeeda Imtiaz has broken the silence after rumours of her death circulated and revealed the reason behind the disinformation.

The actress posted a video on her verified Instagram account revealing that she is in fact alive and well. She has 172K followers on Instagram.

“I don’t know why someone would do this”, Imtiaz said in the video, explaining that she woke up that morning to an influx of calls and text messages from people enquiring about her welfare.

Moreover, she went on to add that the rumours were also sent to her siblings and mother, none of whom live with her in Pakistan.

She explained that someone hacked her Facebook and Instagram accounts. “I understand teasing or bullying someone, but I don’t understand bullying someone to the extent where it hurts them or their family.”

Earlier, the Instagram story on Imtiaz’s verified Instagram account stated that the model was found dead in her room on Tuesday morning.

The news of the actress’s death spread like wildfire on social media and was shared by fan pages and on WhatsApp groups.

A few hours after the reports of her death spread, some social media pages reported that Saeeda Imtiaz was fine and the news of her death was false.

Saeeda’s Instagram account and Facebook are said to have been hacked and this story has been posted by hackers, the social media pages claimed.

Her co-actor in the reality show Tamasha, Saim Ali, also said that she was alive and that her social media accounts had been hacked.

Saeeda Imtiaz has worked in films like Kulfi, Redram, Thoda Setting Thoda Pyaar, and “Kaptaan”.

Correction: An earlier version of our reporting on this case quoted Saeeda Imtiaz’s verified Instagram account post that she had passed away. The story was updated hours later when celebrities clarified that the Instagram post was incorrect. The error is regretted and the stories have been corrected across our platforms.