Creating more heat than he did previously after his tweet to PM Narendra Modi and the Indian Army thanking them, the ex-Pakistani citizen Adnan Sami has now reportedly said that “Pakistan should thank India for killing the terrorists” in the ‘surgical strike’.
At the India Today Safaigiri Awards, the singer drew parallels between garbage and terrorism to explain his point. He said, “If I see garbage flowing from my neighbour’s house and entering my house, I will complain against it to my neighbour. However, if the neighbour fails to do that, I will enter his house and clean the garbage myself, because you couldn’t clean the garbage, I had to enter your house and clean it.”
He further added, “For years, Pakistan has been saying that they too are victims of terrorism. Here, when your neighbour is helping you out, you don’t want to even acknowledge it.”
Urging Pakistan to join hands with India, he said, “Eliminate it (terrorism). If you won’t do it alone, let us do it together so that we and our children can live in this world in peace. That is it. There is nothing more to it. It is as simple as that. Why are you taking this personally? You yourself know there are suicide bombers who blast themselves in mosques, so if someone is helping you eliminate it, you should be thankful.”
Sami’s tweets earlier had hurt the sentiments of Pakistanis, the singer explained that they were not targeted towards Pakistan. “I never said a word against Pakistan.”
“My tweets were against a common enemy. An enemy that has been hurting both the nations and the rest of the world, too. If anything, Pakistan should thank India for finishing the terrorists.”
On the flak he received for his tweet, he argued that terrorists don’t belong to any side of the border. “The tweet came out of my heart and I pardon those who criticised me. They interpreted it in their own way and that’s why I wrote that they see Pakistan and terrorists as the same.”
“It is not important where the strike took place, but why it took place. This is a strike to eliminate terror camps, be it on any side of the border. Terrorism doesn’t have a border. Terrorists attack Mumbai, Peshawar and also Paris.”
The 43-year-old stressed that in times like these everybody wants peace and not just artists.
