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According to multiple reports, actor Salman Khan has been declared a terrorist and placed under Schedule 4 of Pakistan's 1997 Anti-Terrorism Act. To recall, at the Joy Forum 2025 event in Riyadh, Khan spoke about Indian cinema's popularity in the Middle East and mentioned people from Balochistan and Pakistan separately . Notably, there's no official confirmation on this so far, and the update is based on media reports. Khan's team has also not reacted to this recent development yet.
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What did Khan say?
Khan said, "Right now, if you make a Hindi film and release it here (in Saudi Arabia), it will be a superhit." "If you make a Tamil, Telugu, or Malayali film, it will do hundreds of crores in business because so many people from other countries have

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