Pakistani actress Mahira Khan is yet to make her debut in Bollywood opposite superstar Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Raees’. However, amid the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the Uri attack, IMPPA has prohibited Pakistani artists to work India till the situation returns to normal.
Amidst the hostile situation prevailing between the two nations, Mahira recently expressed her feelings about this enmity with a post written by Pakistani celeb Alizay Jaffer. Mahira shared the post on her Twitter account which happens to be Alizay’s personal experience of what she feels about the Indo-Pak enmity.
Alizay penned about how perturbed she has been with this increasing cross-border hatred and calls for harmony between the two nations.
She started her post with the line ‘It's strange, this affinity with India’, and elaborated it by explaining how the Pakistanis cherishes every time a Ranbir Kapoor movie does good, how the they com together to pray for Amitabh Bachchan’s health and how they enjoy the soulful voices of legendary singers like Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar’.
Jaffer further added that both the countries have this strange accord where Indian monuments carry Pakistan’s history and the Pakistani’s language has its roots in India.
The Pak artiste referred to Indo-Pak as siblings who hit back on each other at everything as they both share the rapport of being impulsive and emotional.
“Ultimately, we both share the label of being impulsive and emotional in our responses to one another – ‘Look at what you’re doing in Kashmir’ ‘Hah, look at what you’re doing in Balochistan’; ‘You attacked us first in Uri’ ‘Have you forgotten about Kargil’?; ‘You started it!’ ‘No! You started it!’”, Jaffer wrote.
Alizay also stated how both the countries are in a quest to please the West, who isn’t much bothered either about India or Pakistan and has been more of an absentee parent. She made a point by saying that it is only India and Pakistan who have to be there for each other, however both the countries are failing to acknowledge this fact.
Tensed by the cross-border attack, Jaffer made a point that after a while, these attacks are going to be a mere topic of discussion between oldies or a textbook chapter.
“It will be just another event our older uncles will discuss when they try to feel better about Pakistan’s failures and convince themselves that partition was the best thing that could’ve happened for us and that, without India, ‘we’re better off’”, she said.
Jaffar goes on to write about the best time of her life, which she feels was spent with her Indian pals and she is glad that despite the Indo-Pak animosity, her terms with cross-border friends won’t be affected.
She concluded her post that if people in India and Pakistan go by the ancient scriptures or holy books, each one of it is trying to spread just one message which is love.
