Everyone knows who is behind 26/11 terror attacks: Saif

He also pointed out that a few videos of Hafiz are full of hate speeches. Lahore High Court’s Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan settled 10 August as the date for listening to the request. “There has been no reaction like this… then why Hafiz Saeed’s extremist views are being projected louder than a common man”, Kabir told reporters here. “How can he even think of a petition seeking a ban on Phantom?”, he said, rehashing the lines from the 1978 film with a few of his own. My family would also not like to do any film that bashes any community… nobody is interested in bashing Pakistan”, he said.

JuD spokesperson and Hafiz Saeed’s brother-in-law Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki was also present during the proceedings. The movie has some scenes which had given me an idea about this ban. “When it comes to dealing with the latter, it is of course a tougher task”, says Kabir, who recently won over audience on both sides of the border when he dealt with the former level of people v/s people in Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

Petitioner’s counsel AK Dogar had submitted that the film “Phantom” was about the 2008 Mumbai attacks and global terrorism and had negative propaganda about Pakistan.

The originator of Lashkar-e-Taiba asserted that the courts in Pakistan had effectively dismisses the allegation of the Indian government about contribution of the JuD or any of its pioneers in the 2008 Mumbai assaults that slaughtered 166 individuals.

“As far as Pakistan is concerned, I always thought that this film will be banned in Pakistan as there are certain topics which Pakistan bans without watching the film or without any review”, Saif, whose 2012 film “Agent Vinod” was banned in the country too, said at a press conference here on Tuesday.

“Phantom” is about the post-26/11 attacks in Mumbai and global terrorism.

Since the government allowed exhibition of Indian films in Pakistan, the Censor Board has been careful about not allowing screening of Indian films which show Pakistan in a bad light or focus on terrorism and ISI.