'Send Veena Malik to hell' says Bal Thackeray

Shiv Sena head calls for Veen a Malik and other Pakistanis working in India to be sent back to Pakistan.

Bal Thackeray, head of the Hindu extremist party, Shiv Sena, has called for actor Veena Malik, along with other Pakistani artists working in India to be sent back, the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.

Thackeray, writing in an editorial published in his party's media organ, Saamna, said that "Veena Malik is a blot on our country's culture."

He was critical of her professional work and her recent 'disappearance', "She goes missing for some days and it appears to be a publicity stunt. . . sometimes she does obscene acts in Bigg Boss and sometimes she gets herself photographed in the nude for magazines," he wrote.

Thackeray questioned the attention accorded to Malik in the Indian media "Veena is not such a big actor from Pakistan that we should go on praising her," he added.

This is not where his tirade ended, and he continued to talk against other Pakistani artists working in India, "there is a trend in Bollywood to hire Pakistani artists. Pakistani actors come to India and do not want to leave."

He also took a swipe at Pakistanis who visited India earlier this year to watch the world cup match in Mohali. "People from Pakistan come to India to watch cricket matches and suddenly vanish. It's difficult to say whether they work for terror outfits or not," Thackeray wrote.

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In the end, he wrote that "we should clean up our country and send Veena Malik to hell."