When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, ‘You’re one of the Queen’s advisers,’ for them it’s, ‘Wow – anything’s possible in the U.K.’
In the Pakistani entertainment industry it’s very, very difficult to get your foot in the door if you don’t have a network in Karachi or Lahore or in the film circle.
I feel like a lot of Indian fans don’t know about my Indian background, so it’s funny online that a lot of fans call me this Pakistani dude. No, I’m Indian, too.
Indian films do well in Pakistan. Pakistani artists do well in India. The signal has always been clear that people on both sides of the fence are not interested in the hatred.
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I’m not even Pakistani.
I don’t really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language. I don’t really see any difference.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I’d want to come to Australia.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora – and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter – I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
I became the face of a leading personal injury firm, and popularised the catchphrase ‘Don’t delay, Claim Today.’ One of their adverts was targeted at the Pakistani and Indian community and became extremely popular as I appeared in it next to The King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan.
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother’s security in Pakistan.
The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
Hindi films are watched with keen interest in Pakistan, as Pakistani plays are watched in India. Pakistani actors also work in the Indian entertainment industry.
I’ve given ‘Bin Roye’ everything, and I’m hoping that people enjoy something different coming from Pakistani cinema.
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
When India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, I wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from Holland and offered my services for Pakistani nuclear programme.
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it’s not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
We need to revive quality music for Pakistani film industry in order to resurrect it.
Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.
Pakistani and Bangaladeshi infiltrators should be thrown out from the country, and there shouldn’t be any compromise on the issue.
You’d go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we’d see of them until we were coming home.
When generally people make race-based jokes to me – even if they’re not technically racist, they’re sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever – on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
The government should take a decision on whether to allow Pakistani actors in India or not, but I think directors and producers will themselves not cast Pakistani actors seeing the kind of opposition the country is witnessing against them.
The worst… was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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