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India, Pakistan spar - this time over Shah
Rukh Khan
Tuesday January 29, 2013 02:49:41 PM,
IANS
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Delhi/Islamabad: Bollwyood star Shah Rukh Khan was
Tuesday at the centre of the latest round of sparring between two
often uneasy neighbours with Pakistan's minister Rehman Malik's
comment that India should provide the actor security prompting a
sharp rebuke from New Delhi that Islamabad should mind its own
'minorities'.
Malik said in Islamabad that the Indian government should provide
security to Shah Rukh, in the thick of a controversy over his
remarks on being a Muslim that led to Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz
Saeed saying the star could move to Pakistan.
Addressing reporters in Islamabad at a reception hosted by the
Indian High Commissioner, Malik added that people of both Pakistan
and India love Shah Rukh, reported Geo TV Tuesday.
India was quick to react.
Soon after Malik's remarks were reported in the media, Information
and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari and Home Secretary R.K.
Singh said Pakistan should worry about the state of affairs in its
own country.
Both Tewari and R.K. Singh spoke in near identical terms to decry
Malik's statement.
"Instead of introspection of how minorities in India are being
treated he (Malik) should contemplate how he can improve condition
of minority in his country," Tewari told reporters.
He said it would be better for Pakistan if Malik paid attention to
domestic matters of his own country rather than worrying about
such things.
"Test of democracy is the way you treat your minority rather than
majority. The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government has
strived to see every citizen in the same light and given equal
right under the constitution," he said.
The home secretary spoke out too.
"We are quite capable of looking after security of our own
citizens... let him (Malik) worry about security of his own," he
said.
Shah Rukh, one of Bollywood's more articulate personalities, had
written in Outlook Turning Points magazine, published in
association with The New York Times: "I sometimes become the
inadvertent object of political leaders who choose to make me a
symbol of all that they think is wrong and unpatriotic about
Muslims in India."
"There have been occasions when I have been accused of bearing
allegiance to our neighbouring nation rather than my own country -
this even though I am an Indian, whose father fought for the
freedom of India. Rallies have been held where leaders have
exhorted me to leave and return what they refer to my original
homeland," added the 47-year-old star.
He went on say that he became so sick of being mistaken for some
crazed terrorist, "who co-incidentally carries the same name as
mine that I made a film subtly titled 'My Name Is Khan' (and I am
not a terrorist) to prove a point".
"Ironically, I was interrogated at the airport for hours about my
last name when I was going to promote the film in America for the
first time," he said.
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