Updated On: 02 May, 2025 02:28 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
While speaking at an event, Javed Akhtar talked about how India has always tried to make peace with Pakistan, but they never reciprocate with the same intentions

Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar has been someone who openly shares his viewpoint on every important subject. While Akhtar has already condemned the Pahalgam terror attack, he has now slammed Pakistan`s alleged complicity in the same. While speaking at a FICCI event, Akhtar talked about how India has always tried to make peace with Pakistan, but they never reciprocates with the same intentions.
Javed Akhtar addressed the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam last week, which claimed 26 lives, and said, “Every government in this country, whether it’s the Congress or the BJP, has tried to establish peace. Even Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji went to Pakistan. But what did they do? They washed the place he visited. Is that what they call friendship? How are we supposed to talk to Pakistan when they didn’t even accept the dead bodies of their own soldiers from the Kargil war?”