What made Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharraf to impose ban on Indian celebrity Feroz Khan’s entry in Pakistan? Our secular media flashed the news of the ban on Feroz Khan’ entry into Pakistan but failed to expose what crime did he commit which irked Musharraf? Believe it or not—at times—our media is following the footsteps of our politicians by adopting the appeasement policy.
Musharraf did not like what Feroz Khan expressed on Pakistan soil where he had gone in connection with the release of the Bollywood picture Taj Mahal, directed by his brother Akbar Khan.
The fact is that in his speech at a gathering of Pakistan’s elites, Feroz Khan told his co-religionists that the lot of Indian Muslims is better than that of the Muslims in Pakistan. He said that “India is a secular nation with a Muslim President and a Sikh Prime Minister.”
Feroz told the Pakistani audience that Indian Muslims were making phenomenal economic progress while Muslims in Pakistan were riven with sectarian strifes.
He said that nobody can deny that Pakistan is a theocratic state. “In contrast to Pakistan, India is a secular country governed by a democratic constitution, while Indian Muslims live relatively in communal harmony, Pakistani Shias and Sunnis are at each other’s threat. In the land of Qaid-e-Azam, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Muslims kill Muslims. Nobody can deny the fact that Pakistan alongwith much of the Middle East remains either under-feudal rule or military dictatorship.”
Indian Muslims enjoy all the privileges and rights as citizens of secular India. There is hardly any country in the world where Muslims are as economically well off as the Muslims living in India are. It is a different story that Pakistan’s ISI is trying to infiltrate into the ranks of Indian Muslims encouraging them to turn into terrorism. The case of Kashmir is before us, he told the audience.
He further said, “Pakistan misses no opportunity to destabilise India politically. During the last two years hundreds of Pakistani agents were caught on the Indian soil. They were responsible for triggering bomb blasts in Delhi, Varanasi, Bangalore etc. Only last months, Pakistani terrorists killed 35 Hindus in Doda district. It is now established beyond any shadow of doubt that the killing of engineer Suryanarayan was ordered by Pakistan’s ISI as a warning to the thousands of Indian workers in Afghanistan.”
He said that “Islamabad is mainly responsible for the on going jehad in J&K state. It was, perhaps, at the behest of Islamabad that the entire Pundit community was forced to migrate from the Valley. Pakistan has devised a plan to push the entire Hindu population out of Doda and Udhampur districts. It has succeeded in its designs to a large extend.” It has succeeded in its designs to a large extent, thanks to the week Kashmir policy of UPA government led by Manmohan Singh.
Inspite of these anti-Hindu measures, there is relatively communal harmony in India, with no reaction from the majority community, the actor stressed. Actor Feroz Khan was successful in delivering the goods, which none of our politicians cannot deliver during their conferences in Pakistan. In other words, he condemned all the reports, articles and chapters in textbooks, poisoning Pakistani Muslims against India.
He boldly told the Pakistani Muslims that “India is, of course, a vibrant democracy. It is the most vibrant country in the world. In our country, Prime Ministers are changed by peoples' verdict in elections. But, in Pakistan Prime Ministers are dethroned, divested of power, jailed for sometime and then exiled from Pakistan. At present, two of its former Prime Ministers, Nawaz Sharief and Benazir Bhutto are in exile.”
What actor Feroz Khan said about Pakistan and Indian Muslims, is a fact not fiction and must serve as an eye-opener for the western governments.
But it is stunning, while Pakistan dictator bans the entry of Bollywood actor Feroz Khan, why the secularists, Human Rights activists like Shabana Azmis, Jave Akhtars, and Mahesh Bhatts are mum over the issue?
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