Since her return to Pakistan, Veena Malik has received flak both from the media and the clergy for working in a show in arch rival India and for her supposed indiscretions during the show including giving massages, and cuddling and hugging her male housemates. She was also reprimanded for One Shoulder Prom Dresses herself in the way she dressed.

"I was who I am, I never pretended to be any different," says Malik, undeterred. "I am an actress and an entertainer. I was not representing any Islamic group." Those who found her offensive had the option, she says, to switch off the television channel.

Malik says much of what she did during the show was "scripted", Sexy Prom Dresses she followed directions. But she says she went further and tried to show another side of Pakistan, of women who are "educated, liberal, independent". The outside world, she says, has seen enough of women being thrashed in public.

"Culture is not just about wearing a salwar-kameez and donning a dupatta; I agree I wore Western dresses, even shorts, but then I do so in Pakistan as well. But more than clothes, I wanted to show them there was another side of Pakistan." She added: "I know my values as a Pakistani and a Strapless Prom Dresses and never overstepped these once.

"I never shied from doing housework, I cooked, I prayed, I never resorted to abuse or backbiting and bitching when others did."

But the reaction to her shows that more than ever, the space for liberal-minded people in Pakistan appears to be shrinking, with increased Islamic fundamentalism on the rise.

In December, the liberal and outspoken governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was short prom dresses for supporting a Christian woman sentenced to death under the blasphemy law. Lawmaker and former information minister Sherry Rehman has been threatened she would "be silenced" for seeking amendments to the law.