New Delhi: Bollywood star Salman Khan has won the admiration of Balochis and the wrath of Pakistanis. His recent comments separating Balochistan from Pakistan are now being celebrated and criticised.

At the Joy Forum 2025 in Riyadh, Khan highlighted the growing popularity of Indian cinema across the Gulf region, citing the diverse South Asian communities residing and working there. “There are people from Balochistan, there are people from Afghanistan, there are people from Pakistan… everyone is working here,” Khan said in a now-viral video clip.

Although brief and perhaps unintentional as a political statement, Khan’s remark has been widely interpreted as a significant and deliberate acknowledgment of Balochistan as a distinct cultural and national entity. The reaction has been swift a

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