Pakistani actress Veena Malik defended on Saturday her front cover photos for men’s magazine FHM, where she appeared with ISI tattooed on her arm, but denied the photo shoot involved any nudity. “In India every thing is referred to ISI (Pakistan’s top spy agency Inter Services Intelligence)”, she told a private TV channel in Pakistan. “Even if a very small thing happens, they say ISI is behind it. Everybody blames ISI for everything.”
The actress said the original idea had been Kabeer Sharma’s, editor of FHM’s Indian edition, but that the photos had been “morphed”. “He told me that (the tattoo) will be very bold and will cover the upper portion of the body, which it did not. “I agreed to a photo shoot and having an ISI tattoo in a humorous way but I did not have any nude photos.
My pictures have been morphed,” said Malik, who shot to fame in Indian TV show ‘Big Boss 4’. “They have the videos of the shoot but it would be in clothes and not without clothes”, the actress said. Also speaking to the channel, Sharma said Malik had been “very excited for this shoot” and the tattoo by the make-up artist had been “in very thin font, but (Malik) asked to make a bold tattoo of ISI”.
Reacting to the controversy, Pakistan’s Interior minister Rehman Malik said that the government would verify the nudity matter. “If she has done so, she did wrong. But, these pictures are tempered many times and we will look into this issue,” he told reporters.
Veena cries foul, defends ISI tattoo for photoshoot
