Jamat-ud-Dawah chief and alleged mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attack Hafiz Saeed has filed a plea in a Lahore court, seeking a ban on the release of Bollywood movie Phantom in Pakistan. Saeed alleges that the film, set on post-26/11 attacks and global terrorism, has ‘filthy propaganda’ against the country, said a PTI report.
Recommended
Saeed pleaded before the court that the film, which has Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead, has ‘venom against Pakistan and Jamaat-ud-Dawa’. The film is scheduled to release on 28 August. Saeed, who is the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed that the courts in Pakistan had rejected the accusation of the Indian government about involvement of the JuD or any of its leaders in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
Phantom is based on crime author Hussain Zaidi’s novel Mumbai Avengers. So far the Pakistan censor board has not cleared the film for screening in the country, said the PTI report. In the past, Saif Ali Khan’s Agent Vinod and Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger were banned from being screened in cinema halls in the country.