On SRK: We can secure our citizens says India to Pakistan

India is capable of securing its citizens, Home Secretary R.K. Singh said Tuesday in response to Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s statement that the Indian government should provide security to actor Shahrukh Khan.

“We are quite capable of looking after security of our own citizens… let him (Malik) worry about security of his own,” R.K. Singh told reporters here.

Shah Rukh found himself in the thick of another controversy after his comments on being a Muslim led to Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed saying the star could move to Pakistan.

The 47-year-old actor wrote: “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 superstar of Hindi cinema.

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,” said the filmstar.

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20 Comments

  • I dont think India has best security system in place for its citizens… Oh! Yes it is much better when it comes to politicians or vvips.. !!!!

  • Muslims are more safe in India than Pakistan

    I’m Muslim and I know it better… I’m proud to be an Indian..

  • Mahesh bhatt to abp news-Aaplog mannat jao….uski ek ek bricks mein dhyan se dekho aur pass jao….usme se ek sachhe hindustani ki khushboo aayegi…. Salute to legend SRK.

  • Its great, srk has lots of supporters in pak. If he is feeling unsafe in india,he can move to any place. We indians given lots of money.we dont need these kind of persons in our country.this guy will spoil the communal harmony. When Akshay did ‘omg’.ajay did ‘sos’,sunny deol did ‘gadar’ faced these kind of problems,but they didnt make any communal comments. If really there is disaremenation towards minorities in india,how can salman,amir,saif can become superstar. Srk has to change his attittude

  • Another irrelevant article- this is a movie site and not a political forum. These politicians need to get on with their jobs and Indicine should continue to post Indian Cinema news than political news. Politicians from every country are the same- attention seeking media sell outs. Being in the news for anything is more important than actual news itself for them. Shame on them.

  • Why we are defending it, He (SRK) is most welcome to move to Pakistan and there his friends like Hafiz Saeed is welcoming him with open arms. I think its him who has allowed himself to be used as a ‘Muslim’ icon by the likes of Rajiv Shukla and others in Congress. And that was only because SRK wanted to gain some cheap publicity. His films are bombing on box-office, so that was the way he wanted to stay in limelight.

  • these days SRK movies are not working at the box-office that’s way he like controversies around him. he just wants to be in headlines

  • What RK Singh should have replied is, “I don’t give answers to some joker’s comment.” It would have sent the message clearly.

  • SRK = I, Me and Myself.

    read the news article, it is i, me and myself, as if he is the only muslim actor who is having problems.

    too much religious sentiments being played by srk.

    is srk breaking emotionally?

  • Why has that b@stard paki dragged SRK into all this?? He is just using SRK’s popuplarity to taunt India…SRK is being victimized for no reason at all….and all these haters just jumping on the bandwagon and calling SRK traitor and telling him to go to pakistan even though he is at no fault at all….wat can he do if some loser makes idiotic comments using his name??? If he had said Salman or Aamir instead of Shahrukh wud there be so much hatred??????

  • @vinay…i don’t think that u even know the meaning of word “deshdrohi”.first go and learn, then make a comment.
    @ahsan…lolz…r u sure?? that he is doing these things only for make a place in headlines…is he not famous enough that he has to create contoversies to be famous.get well soon.
    @akram…bcoz this matter is directly related to our prestige.a moron from another country is talking abt our security.thats y we r defending him.but it is beyond ur imagination, bcoz for u …hating srk is most priority.national prestige and all other things are below than ur hating.keep going.

  • @Rijwan
    You say you’re proud to be an indian, how in the hell do you think you know about Pakistan? Even if do, then, what I think is that you are no Muslim. I am not saying you’re bad muslim or anything, nobody says that. I am saying you religion is not Islam, there’s no name ‘RiJwam’ It’s ‘Rizwan’. What ever you say, I won’t believe you now, If you say that why or how would you know the name, well, the article mentions ‘My Name Is Khan’, in which the name of the lead actor, Sharukh Khan, in the film was, Let me think, oh I remember ‘Rizwan’.
    Do not lie, just to create more fight, you want to defend your country, defend it by truth.

  • This is not the first time it happened and SRK should have known this and should not have acted stupidly. He knows every time he talks about himself being Muslim in media, a controversy happens. It clearly shows that he is doing it to gain some sympathy and keep his rapidly falling position amongst audience. Hates off to SRK’s PR team. That’s y I love salman cuz doesn’t matter what he does in his personal life.. Good or bad he doesn’t wash his dirty clothes in media and doesn’t star whining in front of media. Cheap cheap cheap..

  • How safe are Muslims in India .. Well we gotta ask the Muslims of Bombay from early 1990s or we should as the Muslims of Gujrat.

  • @ Nicepost,

    Come down to Mumbai and stay here and then you will know how safe they are.

    I know muslims in Pakistan having relatives in Mumbai, coming down here and saying Mumbai is so safe.

    There have been problems with religion all along. The locals will generally have problems with outsiders. The south indians had problem, the north indians had problem. But, those were one off incidents that happens very rarely and are all politically motivated to gain popularity among locals.

    No one hates muslims or hate north/south indians, as we all live peacefully in this city.

    If you have not experienced it, don’t open your mouth in a public forum. Most of my friends are muslim and we never had any issues with each other. Just because a few, unimportant selfish elements create trouble, doesn’t mean we hate each other or feel unsafe here. We are far more educated to understand what is wrong and what is right.

  • Also, SRK complaining is nothing but whining in public. I am an outsider in Mumbai, and as i said there have been problems for all outsiders, wether it is geograhical / religious difference, but in all my years, those have been just one or two incidents.

    SRK forgot how much love the Indians have showered on him, that he points out the negatives of people who are not worth mentioning. Yet, he goes on talking and whining about his problems in public.

    He should learn to restrain himself. He has earned his livelihood and become successful in this city and in this country, and who doesn’t have problems in their life. They have problems at office, at home, with friends, with neighbours and so on…. Should all of them go and wash the dirty linen in public?

    I didn’t realise this that his movie ‘My Name is Khan’ and the incident of him getting detained in US were during the same time.

    I now doubt that what was just a small matter of security in US, which has been since 9/11, and people with muslim surnames are just checked/questioned a bit more, has been blown out of proportion by his PR team to gain publicity to his movie.

    There were problems for punjabis (sardars) during the 80s and every sardar was looked with suspicion, but that is a passing phase and just because of the circumstances, and i didn’t find any Sardar voicing their displeasure in public, and see now they are again the jovial and fun loving guys and we enjoy with them.

    But this PR stunt has just being taken too far by SRK and his team. Its a shame.

  • Sharukh Khan thinks that he is a true muslim? Just bu offering prayers nobody becomes a muslim. You have to accept it by heart which he certainly hasn’t, he drinks alchohol and who knows what other things he do.
    I am an indian and a muslim, I know that Muslims are not really treated very good, many respect muslims and only some don’t.I have got many many friends which are not muslims. We are respected here, some don’t respect us but that does not make me think that Indians are bad, they are very very good. That’s certainly not the case with SRK. He has millions and millions of fans in India, adding overseas people then his fan following is in Billions. Very very few people would be against his religion, and he really doesn’t has anything to worry about.
    Just for some People, we can’t say we are against Indians. Really, indians are my family.

  • @JC well said. Truly SRK is an attention seeker who cannot come to terms that his star is fading slowly with each passing movie. Next week he will say something else just to have cameramen pointing their cameras on him all over again. Its sad to see but in every field top people get moved on and replaced by a new younger generation. SRK needs to accept this and move onto retirement gracefully.

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