Word around town: Celebrities on religious intolerance across the border

The situation is temporary ... it will not affect the exchange of artists. Bollywood is a business-oriented industry and they will keep hiring Pakistani artists till it is profitable for them. Besides, the intolerance is coming from just one regional party, not all of India.



Singer Junaid Khan

It is sad to see a country that claims to be progressive and secular breed such extremism. I don’t know who to blame, a  handful of extremist politicians or a country allowing this to happen?



Singer Umair Jaswal

I can’t really say much since I have not been following the news of late. But I do know that art and talent can never be restricted no matter where they come from. The history of the subcontinent is complicated, yes. But art has nothing to do with politics and religion or anything of the sort. So why not appreciate it?



Actor Mehwish Hayat

Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, November 15^th, 2015.