Pakistani TV actor Faisal Qureshi calls ‘Dawn’ Indian newspaper after it slams his Phantom review (Watch video)

Staff correspondent, August 31, 2015, NewsCrunch

Pakistanis having a bhakt moment. Like our own NDTV, which is often slammed as a Pakistani channel for its Adarsh liberal stance, Dawn is being called an Indian newspaper.

Pakistan TV actor Faisal Qureshi, who uploads popular video commentaries on his Facebook page questioned the highly regarded Dawn ‘s patriotism recently.

Its crime:  It had publishedan article by Faraz Talat, who had come down heavily on Faisal Qureshi’s review of Phantom.

Faisal Qureshi had released a longish 12-minute video review of Phantom, a jingoistic and badly made Indian movie. In his critique he had matched jingoism with jingoism and played to the gallery.

Faraz Talat had charged Faisal Qureshi with putting forward an ugly face of Pakistanwith his chest-thumping and bald-faced muscle-flexing response.

Faraz Talat had noted that the politically ignorant Faisal Qureshi was unable to make any point without resorting to insults and was guilty of raging misogynism as well.

Faisal Qureshi had used words like “sahiba” and “bachi” to attack Saif Ali Khan.

Faisal Qureshi hit back asking if Dawn was a Pakistani newspaper or blatantly Indian? Even the worst kind of Pakistani could not have written this article, he wrote, inviting Faraz Talat for a no-holds barred debate in Lahore.