Salman Khan earns wrath of Dukhtaran-e-Milat chief

Bollywood Dabangg Salman Khan was recently in Kashmir. The Khan was shooting for Kabir Khan’s upcoming film Bajrangi Bhaijaan with Kareena Kapoor. Salman and Kareena are back in Mumbai after completing the month long schedule of the film in the valley.

Salman Khan who has fallen in love with Kashmir and the people of the valley recently had advocated the re-opening of cinema theatres in the Valley. He had asserted that everyone here watches movies on television and even through pirated CDs and this could be checked if the Valley got its cinema theatres back.

Salman Khan was slammed for voicing his views, by Asiya Andrabi, chief of women’s separatist group ‘Dukhtaran-e-Milat’ (Daughters of Faith). Wife of seperatist Dr Qasim Faqtoo, who is undergoing life imprisonment in Srinagar’s Central jail for killing Kashmiri pandit H N Wanchoo. The firebrand chief came down heavily on Salman Khan for advocating re-opening of cinema theatres in the Kashmir Valley.

Asiya Andrabi said, “Salman Khan is acting like an Indian agent to help cultural aggression of Kashmir by India. India was planning to export whatever is “immoral” and “un-Islamic” into Kashmir through the medium of cinema and for this, agents like Salman Khan were being used. We will not allow cinema halls to function in Kashmir. Whatever be the cost.”

Slamming Chief J&K Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed, who recently went to Mumbai and invited film makers to shoot in Kashmir. Andrabi said that he did it on the directions of New Delhi to bring the vices of the Indian society into Jammu and Kashmir so that this state has a high crime rate like the Indian states.

Radical groups like the Dukhtaran-e-Milat campaigned against cinema halls, beauty parlours, wine shops and video parlours in the Valley in the early 1990s and forced their closure. No cinema hall has been able to restart operations in Kashmir since then.