Raj Thackeray praises Javed Akhtar over his 26/11 remark in Pakistan: I want Muslims like him – Times of India

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, on Wednesday, praised veteran lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar over his comment on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in Pakistan. He said that our country wants Muslims like him who can speak against Pakistan.
“I want people like Javed Akhtar and many more. I want Indian Muslims who speak against Pakistan and tell them our power. Javed Akhtar does that and I want Muslims like him,” Raj Thackeray said while addressing crowd at a rally held at Dadar’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park on the occasion of Gudi Padwa.

At the literary event held in the memory of renowned Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Lahore last month, Javed was heard saying that the perpetrators and conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were still roaming freely in Pakistan.

“Blaming each other won’t solve our problems. We saw how Mumbai was attacked. They (terrorists) came neither from Norway nor Egypt. They are still roaming freely in your country. So you shouldn’t be offended if there’s a grouse and bitterness in Indian hearts over the 26/11 attacks,” he had said at the event.

He also did not hesitate to say that India has organised so many grand functions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Mehdi Hassan but Pakistan couldn’t organise a single event of Lata Mangeshkar.