Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed on Saturday asked Bollywood star Shah rukh Khan to come to Pakistan if he feels insecure in India.
“If Shah rukh Khan does not feel safe in India, he can come to Pakistan. I will welcome him. I will help him with his stay here,” Mr Saeed said in an interview with a Pakistani television channel.
“Shah rukh will be respected in Pakistan. If he feels insecure our doors are open,” he added.
The JuD chief’s invitation comes in response to Shah rukh Khan’s recent statements about life as a Muslim in India. The Indian superstar talked about how he became an “inadvertent object of political leaders”. In a magazine, Shah rukh Khan said, “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,” he wrote.
Saeed is considered as most wanted militant by India for his alleged association with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) and its anti-India activities. He, however, denies any wrongdoing and links to militants.
The JuD chief said the Indian home minister “confessed” that few Indian parties are involved in carrying out terrorism in Pakistan, demanding to declare the neighbouring country a “terrorist state”.
Saeed said India tries to hide its terrorism on the basis of incidents like Mumbai attack.
“There is no advantage in trade agreement between the two countries until India changed its behaviour towards Pakistan,” he added. “America and India have evil eyes on Pakistan’s atomic and missile programmes,” the JuD chief said. He said that rulers should come up with a solid reply over protection of its atomic reactors and “Indian terrorism”.
Meanwhile, officials here said that Pakistan-India secretary-level talks on the water issue have been postponed.