F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has slammed the Indian actors for advocating war on social media and interfering in the issues beyond their understanding, on Saturday.
After the tensions escalated between two nuclear-armed neighboring countries, several Bollywood celebrities had taken to their social media pages to laud the Indian Air Force and added to war hysteria.
Fawad Chaudhry responding to these celebraties and said that majority of them haven’t even finished their school, they lack knowledge of very basic issues. He added that wars are not a joke it’s a serious a business and the jokers should not talk about it who became celebrities by stroke of luck.
Earlier on Friday, Pakistan released captured Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman as a “gesture of peace” towards New Delhi and an effort to de-escalate tensions between the two countries.
Wing Commander Abhinandan was captured when his MiG-21 among two Indian military aircraft was shot down by Pakistan Air Force after they ventured into the Pakistani airspace.
India and Pakistan are amidst their biggest stand-off in many years, with the United States and other global powers mediating to de-escalate tensions between arch-foes who have fought three wars since their independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
