Veena Malik

Source: theaustralian.com.au

A Pakistani film star is pitting herself against conservative clerics after wearing shorts and swimming with Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.

After attacks from religious leaders, Veena Malik, star of more than a dozen “Lollywood” (Lahore’s Hollywood) movies, has called for women to be freed from conservative dress and the horror of honour killing.

“If a woman is cool with wearing a burka, she should wear a burka. If a woman, being a Muslim, wants to wear jeans, then she should wear jeans. That’s your right,” she said.

Malik, 32, whose former boyfriend Mohammad Asif, the Pakistani Test cricketer, was embroiled in a betting scandal last year, has become a champion for Pakistani liberals after appearing in Bigg Boss 4, a version of Big Brother, on Indian television.

The repeated showing on Pakistani television of two clips, one in which she is seen wearing shorts and another in which she hugs an Indian actor, prompted a backlash from clerics.

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Hugely popular Pakistani Lollywood actress and model Veena Malik joins Gagan live on the show.

The ex girlfriend of Pakistani cricketer Mohammed Asif, Veena Malik recently appeared in the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss.

Presenter: Gagan Grewal.

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A glamorous actress has claimed she would die so women could have the right to wear jeans after being publically savaged for sporting shorts and swimming with Pamela Anderson.

Veena Malik, who is one of Pakistan’s most prominent stars, has attacked hardline clerics who demand modest Muslims should be suitably covered at all times.

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Pakistani actress Veena Malik has broken off her engagement with fiance Faisal Akbar Khan following her much-publicised stint on the fourth season of Indian reality show ‘Big Boss’.

Veena has confirmed that her engagement with the New York based Pakistani businessman is over.

“I called up Faisal and told him that I can no longer marry him. I told him that I am breaking the engagement as I have to focus on my career. We couldn’t develop an understanding and there was no use in dragging this engagement any further,” Veena told the Express Tribune newspaper.

The model-turned-actress, who was grilled and then broke down in tears on the Express television channel recently while discussing her antics on Big Boss, including her closeness to actor Ashmit Patel, said she took the decision to break off her engagement herself.

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Source: dailytimes.com.pk

Posted letter to the Editor, The Daily Times

Sir: History echoes with passionate pleas for justice and charity, but in our times what we hear are demands for respect. In a world where interests and concepts are diverse and often conflicting, justice is needed to assure each person a reasonable prospect of security and liberty. This appeal is in response to Veena Malik’s issue raised after the Indian programme Bigg Boss. I, as a sister of Veena Malik, condemn the media and all others who are involved in discussing and exploiting a woman’s rights and respect. Learn to respect humanity, otherwise devise a law or policy for such situations but please stop cutting your own roots because Islam granted utmost respect to women. I request the people of Pakistan to stop discussing and disgracing a nation’s daughter.
SHEHLA MUMTAZ
Bahawalpur

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Pakistani actress Veena Malik has broken off her engagement with fiance Faisal Akbar Khan following her much-publicised stint on the fourth season of Indian reality show Bigg Boss.

Veena has confirmed that her engagement with the New York based Pakistani businessman is over.

“I called up Faisal and told him that I can no longer marry him. I told him that I am breaking the engagement as I have to focus on my career. We couldn’t develop an understanding and there was no use in dragging this engagement any further,” Veena told the Express Tribune newspaper.

The model-turned-actress, who was grilled and then broke down in tears on the Express television channel recently while discussing her antics on Bigg Boss, including her closeness to actor Ashmit Patel, said she took the decision to break off her engagement herself.

Khan is a businessman based in New York and is a family friend of Malik. The two got engaged in October last year after cricketer Mohammad Asif broke up with Veena to get married.

Veena, who claims to have received lucrative offers to host some World Cup related shows on Indian channels, said Faisal proposed to her quite a long time ago.

“But I didn’t accept. After my break up with Asif, my parents asked me to marry him and I couldn’t resist. I gave our relationship time but we couldn’t reach an understanding so I amicably called him up and said that I cannot marry him.”

However Malik did not reveal when she does she plan on getting married. When asked about her relationship with Patel she stood by her previous stance and said, “I have always said he is just my friend. We have a good relationship and that’s all there is to it.”

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We columnists might not look trendy in our photographs, but in reality we are a pretty trendy lot. We follow trends like clockwork, and revel in how they develop and reach their logical conclusions. So when a submission deadline is looming large on our heads and an empty computer screen is staring blankly at our yawning faces, then it’s the weekly trends that come to our rescue and save the day.

And this week the trend is to hop onto the Veena Malik controversy bandwagon, and simply refuse to get off it. So, please, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to do the same and add my own two bits to the most amusing debate of the year 2011.

And for those of you who haven’t heard of it already, here is how it goes.

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Source: dailytimes.com.pk

Veena Malik

Sir: Veena Malik has caused quite a stir, and rightly so. She is the only person who had the guts to tell the religious establishment, to its face, the reality of their preaching. One point that she made was particularly adequate. She said that according to the brand of religion the mufti (invited to the same TV show as her) follows, he could not even look at her without violating Islam. This is so apt. The moral brigade, especially these intolerant mullahs, do nothing but talk ill of everyone they deem to be on a lower moral pedestal than themselves while continuously committing sins by not practicing what they preach.

Veena Malik has called a spade a spade, and for that I salute her!
YUSAF AHMED
Lahore

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Source:tribune.com.pk

Tomorrow the Presidency?

The first thing that strikes you as you enter Veena Malik’s house in DHA Lahore is the silence… and let’s face it, silence is not something you associate with the feisty beauty. The serenity surrounding her residence is at odds with shrill war of words that the actor’s boldness and behaviour has sparked in Pakistan.

Right now there seem to be two types of people in the land of the pure: those who adore Malik for her defiance and those who would like to see her lynched for her over-the-top attitude. In her first television interview after returning from her stint on “Bigg Boss” in India, Malik took on both the anchor Kamran Shahid and Mufti Abdul Qavi , both of whom seemed bent upon dragging her through the mud for the ‘shame’ her behaviour in India apparently caused the nation. Her spirited defence of her behaviour may have got her detractors up in arms but has also struck a chord with many others who now see her as the poster girl for free speech and expression. Drawing rooms, news channels and online forums are all abuzz with Veena Malik fever, with Pakistan’s Twitteratti making her one of the top ten Twitter trends worldwide on the day the interview aired.

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