Strike against terrorism: Sami.
Pakistani artists working in India has been facing criticism for not condemning the Uri attack and some organizations even asked them to leave the country for the same reason.
Singer Adnan Sami, who is a Pakistani by birth, but now lives in India after he received Indian citizenship, faced a series of verbal attacks by people from Pakistan on Twitter for praising the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC).
“Big Congratulations to PMO India and our brave armed forces for a brilliant, successful and mature strategic strike against terrorism! Salute.” Sami tweeted on Thursday.
The tweet of the singer who got Indian citizenship earlier this year went viral and soon Pakistanis started criticizing him for not siding with Pakistan.
“You don’t have to keep reaffirming your pledge of allegiance to your new motherland,” tweeted one user.
“Sad. Very very extremely sad. You are worth of a million hate,” tweeted another one going by the handle Maria Aziz.
While many people called him a traitor, some questioned Sami for criticizing Pakistan despite being the son of a Pakistani diplomat. Sami’s father Arshad Sami Khan was a Pakistani diplomat.
“Being the son of a Pakistani ambassador should’ve told you that no one wins a war between nuclear states. According to your twisted logic, your father too has served as a terrorist ambassador. Have you disowned your parents too,” wrote Salman Ahmad of Pakistani band Junoon.
“What a huge traitor! Son of a PAF pilot, shameless to the core,” tweeted a user named Palwasha Khan.
Sami, however, came up with a befitting reply to those who poured abuse on him.
“Pakistanis are outraged by my earlier tweet. Their outburst clearly means they see terrorist and Pakistan as the same! Self-goal. Stop terrorism,” Sami tweeted.