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@Javedakhtarjadu

Can any Indian or @Javedakhtarjadu himself dare to speak on the use of pellet guns, gang-rapes, extra-judicial killings, and stripping civilians of human dignity is the everyday routine of #Indianforces in #IIOJK?

Occurrences like the government sanctioned release of eleven convicts who were charged with the gang rape of Bilquis Bano and the murder of her family in the #Gujarat riots of 2002, conveys clearly that #MuslimWomen are unsafe in India.

@Javedakhtarjadu

@Javedakhtarjadu was hosted by Pakistan at the #FaizLiteratureFestival2023. He is trending on social media, for all the wrong reasons though and none of them have to do with Literature. @Javedakhtarjadu spoke about defusing tension between the two countries and said.....

@JavedAkhter

Pakistan couldn't blame Indians for being angry.
Basically, @JavedAkhter is handled by #BJP led govt and because he cannot take the Muslim tag off, despite all his efforts to blend in with Hinduism therefore like all #Muslims of every class in #India he has to follow.....

#BJP #RSS #Hindutva line for his survival and prosperity.
Haqeeqat yeh hai ki hum dono ek dusre ko ilzaam na dein toh usse baat nahi hogi, aham baat yeh hai ki jo garam hai fiza, woh kam honi chahiye.Hum toh Bambaiye log hain. Hamne dekha wahan kaise hamla hua tha.

Wo log Norway se toh nahi aaye the naa Egypt se aaye the, wo log abhi bhi aapke mulk me ghum rahe hain. Toh ye shikayat agar Hindustani ke dil mein ho toh aapko bura nahi manna chahiye...,"

@AzmiShabana

While his own wife @AzmiShabana said that “For a long time now, my husband and I have been saying that we really need more co-productions between India and Pakistan. If you look at cricket, it divides you — it doesn’t put you together!

It is art that unites [when] politics divides. Art is an instrument that can bring about social change, and we can do it through cinema.

@Javedakhtarjadu

This was not the forum to air your political concerns @Javedakhtarjadu Saahab! Indians are utterly disappointed too, to listen to a man whose pen writes so beautifully, descend to vitriolic rhetoric on a forum that was purely to celebrate Art, Poetry & Literature.

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