Hindu hardliners prevent Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali from performing in Mumbai
NEW DELHI – A local Hindu nationalist party has protested the presence of a Pakistani singer and forced organizers to cancel his concert in Mumbai, India’s entertainment capital.
Akshay Bardapurkar, a Shiv Sena leader, says inviting Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali to perform was an insult to all Indians as he belongs to a country which is firing bullets and killing Indian soldiers on their border.
Ali was to perform in Mumbai on Friday, but the organizers cancelled the show as Shiv Sena has a history of disrupting concerts by Pakistani artists.
India and Pakistan have recently accused each other of unprovoked firing along their disputed border in Kashmir.
Mumbai is the capital of western Maharashtra state, which is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party in coalition with Shiv Sena.
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