Pakistani artists given 48-hour deadline to leave India

They have also threatened that Mahira Khan and Fawd Khan s upcoming movies won t be released in India. Soon to be released film, "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil', which also has Pakistani actor Fawad Khan alongside Ranbir Kapoor and Aishwara Rai, has become the latest target of MNS".

However, the Mumbai police on Friday said that all foreign nationals, including Pakistanis who are in Mumbai with valid documents provided by the government of India, need not worry.

Pakistani film actress Sara Loren says she fears for her life in India in the wake of threats from right-wing Hindu groups.

According to Indian Express, Shalini Thackeray, general secretary of MNS Chitrapat Karamchari Sena, said, "It is not a veiled threat".

When asked about similar warnings being issued by the political party in the past, Saraswat said, "Whenever we have given deadlines, we have always worked on it".

This comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two nations after four terrorists killed 18 Army personnel at an Army camp in Uri region. In that letter, the writer, Banerjee said that Fawad and other Pakistani actors like him had milked enough money from Indian film industry and that now it was time for them to leave.

"We have started dashing off letters to Pakistani actors, whose country is allegedly sponsoring terrorism, to stop their acting business here. We have given them 48 hours to leave our country or else we will implement "our approach" towards handling this". This is a direct challenge to producers like Karan Johar who promote Pakistani artistes. He has no need to speak about Pakistan. "It is not as if the MNS people are greater patriots than us and only they feel strongly about this situation", he said. The Shiv Sena had also forced the cancellation of Ghulam Ali's ghazal concert in Mumbai and Atif Aslam's concert in Pune.