Gauahar Khan: No one talks about Syria or Palestine
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ctor Gauahar Khan is spending her birthday wishing for peace all across the world. She hopes that the exploitation of people in the name of religion will end. “I spend every birthday, in fact every day, wanting peace. I want the suffering to end. I want people to just stop (doing) everything in the name of power, religion. They need to stop exploiting people’s minds to take them away from the real issues. I really want people to find peace and happiness,” shares Khan, who turns 38 today. Throughout the years, the actor has been vocal about significant issues, from patriarchy and global conflicts to Islamophobia, and the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan. She uses social media to voice her opinions. Asked about the same, she says, “Right now, everybody is talking about the Taliban entering Kabul, which is absolutely crazy. I want to know how
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many people actually spoke up about the issues that were happening in Afghanistan in the last 20 years when America was there. It was not at all happy and hunky-dory.”
She continues, “It was a war zone, people were still dying. The Taliban was still attacking people. It was not a peaceful land, Syria is not peaceful, Palestine is not peaceful, but nobody really speaks about it. I feel it is a media operated propaganda that people want to be selective about the causes they support”. According to her, humanity is “across religions, sex, faiths and countries”.
“If you are humane, you should have the same kind of values for everybody. It has got nothing to do with, ‘humko matter karta hai toh hi hum baat karenge warna nahi karenge’. Your voice is yours. You need to use it wisely and use it for the correct topics,” says the actor, who has been having an eventful birthday month with back to back releases. Meanwhile, her birthday also marks one year since actor Zaid Darbar proposed to her for marriage, making it more special.