Pakistani artistes Fawad Khan, Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s Instagram accounts blocked in India | Bollywood
The Instagram accounts of Pakistani actor Fawad Khan and singers Atif Aslam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan have been blocked in India on Friday. This comes only a day after accounts of Hania Aamir, Mahira Khan and Ali Zafar have been blocked. The event comes amidst rising stress between India and Pakistan after 26 folks have been killed in a terror assault in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Different artists whose accounts have been withheld are Sanam Saeed, Bilal Abbas, Iqra Aziz, Imran Abbas and Sajal Aly.
Fawad Khan’s account blocked
While you click on on Fawad, Atif and Rahat’s accounts, Instagram says, “Account not accessible in India. It’s because we complied with a authorized request to limit this content material.”
This comes after the Indian authorities’s transfer 3 days in the past to ban 16 Pakistani YouTube channels, together with outstanding media retailers like Daybreak Information, Samaa TV, ARY Information, and Geo Information. The channels have been banned for airing provocative and communally delicate content material, false and deceptive narratives and misinformation towards India.
The discharge of Fawad’s upcoming movie Abir Gulaal, which additionally stars Vaani Kapoor, has additionally been stalled for now. “The film Abir Gulaal, starring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, is not going to be allowed to launch in India,” sources advised PTI. The movie was alleged to launch on Could 9.
Concerning the Pahalgam assault
On April 22, a bunch of closely armed terrorists emerged from the woods and focused vacationers on the Baisaran grassland close to Pahalgam. 26 folks, 25 of them vacationers, have been killed within the assault. The incident was harking back to the heyday of terrorism within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s and the worst to rock the nation because the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults.
