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India, Pakistan spar - this time over SRK (Afternoon Lead)

Jan 29 2013, 2:42am CST | by

New Delhi/Islamabad, Jan 29 (IANS) Bollwyood star Shah Rukh Khan was Tuesday at the centre of the latest round of sparring between two often uneasy neighbours with Pakistan's minister Rehman Malik's comment that India should provide the actor security prompting a sharp rebuke from New Delhi that Islamabad should mind its own 'minorities'.

New Delhi/Islamabad, Jan 29 — Bollwyood star Shah Rukh Khan was Tuesday at the centre of the latest round of sparring between two often uneasy neighbours with Pakistan's minister Rehman Malik's...

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UK Scrambles Fighter Jets After Pakistan Flight Diverted

Source: The Business Insider  |   May 24 2013, 9:27am CDT

Enter your email address and zip code to set up customized email alerts. You have successfully emailed the post. A British fighter jet had to be scrambled after a Pakistan International Airlines plane flying from Lahore was diver ...

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UK fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrested

Source: Channel News Asia  |   May 24 2013, 9:18am CDT

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UK fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrests

Source: Reuters  |   May 24 2013, 9:10am CDT

LONDON (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangeri ...

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British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   May 24 2013, 9:03am CDT

Home is where the heart is, no matter what unusual form that home may take. Slideshow LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft" after it ...

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UK scrambles fighter jet to escort Pakistan passenger plane

Source: France 24  |   May 24 2013, 8:42am CDT

A British fighter jet was launched to divert a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday. Britain’s Ministry of Defense said t ...

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UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane

Source: Charlotte Observer  |   May 24 2013, 8:34am CDT

tool goes here LONDON Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days a British soldier was killed on a London street in ...

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Coca-Cola unites enemies India and Pakistan with interactive vending machines which encourage users in both countries to 'make a friend'

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   May 24 2013, 8:25am CDT

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Pakistan Airlines flight diverted over British airspace

Source: CNN  |   May 24 2013, 8:22am CDT

By Claudia Rebaza , CNN updated 9:22 AM EDT, Fri May 24, 2013 London (CNN) -- A Pakistan Airlines flight due to land in northwestern England's Manchester Airport was diverted Friday to London's Stansted airport, and was bei ...

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Manchester-bound jet from Pakistan diverted under RAF escort to London

Source: Manchester Evening News  |   May 24 2013, 8:19am CDT

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Musharraf to stay in Pakistan: APML

Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan  |   May 24 2013, 8:11am CDT

Mushar­raf has every right to live with his people, argues his politi­cal adviso­r. Former president Pervez Musharraf is currently being tried in several cases in Pakistan. PHOTO: FILE LAHORE: Chaudhry Sarfraz Anjum Kahlon, po ...

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Pakistan stocks close lower, rupee strengthens, o/n rates rise

Source: Sify  |   May 24 2013, 7:52am CDT

KARACHI, May 24 (Reuters) - Pakistan stocks closed lower on Friday, with profit-taking seen in some large-cap stocks, dealers said. The Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index closed 0.28 perce ...

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Burning up: Take the Pakistan loadshedding survey

Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan  |   May 24 2013, 7:30am CDT

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India, Pakistan spar - this time over SRK (Afternoon Lead)

Jan 29 2013, 2:42am CST | by

New Delhi/Islamabad, Jan 29 (IANS) Bollwyood star Shah Rukh Khan was Tuesday at the centre of the latest round of sparring between two often uneasy neighbours with Pakistan's minister Rehman Malik's comment that India should provide the actor security prompting a sharp rebuke from New Delhi that Islamabad should mind its own 'minorities'.

New Delhi/Islamabad, Jan 29 — Bollwyood star Shah Rukh Khan was Tuesday at the centre of the latest round of sparring between two often uneasy neighbours with Pakistan's minister Rehman Malik's comment that India should provide the actor security prompting a sharp rebuke from New Delhi that Islamabad should mind its own 'minorities'.

Malik said in Islamabad that the Indian government should provide security to Shah Rukh, in the thick of a controversy over his remarks on being a Muslim that led to Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed saying the star could move to Pakistan.

Addressing reporters in Islamabad at a reception hosted by the Indian High Commissioner, Malik added that people of both Pakistan and India love Shah Rukh, reported Geo TV Tuesday.

India was quick to react.

Soon after Malik's remarks were reported in the media, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari and Home Secretary R.K. Singh said Pakistan should worry about the state of affairs in its own country.

Both Tewari and R.K. Singh spoke in near identical terms to decry Malik's statement.

"Instead of introspection of how minorities in India are being treated he (Malik) should contemplate how he can improve condition of minority in his country," Tewari told reporters.

He said it would be better for Pakistan if Malik paid attention to domestic matters of his own country rather than worrying about such things.

"Test of democracy is the way you treat your minority rather than majority. The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government has strived to see every citizen in the same light and given equal right under the constitution," he said.

The home secretary spoke out too.

"We are quite capable of looking after security of our own citizens... let him (Malik) worry about security of his own," he said.

Shah Rukh, one of Bollywood's more articulate personalities, had written in Outlook Turning Points magazine, published in association with The New York Times: "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 47-year-old star.

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," he said.

IANS

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