As Imran Khan latched on to Naseeruddin Shah's remarks to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bollywood actor on Sunday advised the Pakistan Prime Minister to take care of his own country.
Khan on Saturday said that he will "show" the Narendra Modi government "how to treat minorities", amidst controversy over Shah's remarks on mob violence in India.
Rebuking Khan, the actor told The Indian Express, “I think Mr Khan should be walking the talk in his own country instead of commenting on issues that don’t concern him. We have been a democracy for 70 years and we know how to look after ourselves.”
Shah finds himself at the centre of a major controversy over his remarks on the spate of mob lynching cases in India following the killing of a policeman in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district earlier this month.
In a video interview with Karwan-e-Mohabbat India, the veteran actor said the death of a cow was being given importance over the killing of a policeman in India.
He said the "poison has already spread" and it will be now difficult to contain it.
"It will be very difficult to capture this djinn back into the bottle again. There is complete impunity for those who take law into their own hands...I feel anxious for my children because tomorrow if a mob surrounds them and asks, 'Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?' they will have no answer. It worries me that I don't see the situation improving anytime soon," Shah added.
Addressing an event to highlight the 100-day achievements of the Punjab government in Lahore on Saturday, Pakistan Prime Minister said his government is taking steps to ensure that religious minorities in Pakistan get their due rights, which was also a vision of the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
"We will show the Modi government how to treat minorities...Even in India, people are saying that minorities are not being treated as equal citizens," he said referring to Shah's statement.