Twitterati fight as Indian film body bans Pakistani actors

Sara Loren and Fawad KhanThursday night saw the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association IMPPA passing a resolution to ban Pakistani actors from the industry in the wake of the Uri attackIMPPA in their 87th annual general meeting passed a resolution that no Pakistani will be hired by their producer members forever producer TP Aggarwal the president of IMPPA a news agencyThe resolution came on a day the Indian Army announced that seven terror launch pads were targeted across the LoC by special forces during a surgical strike overnight in which heliborne and ground forces were usedProducer Ashoke Pandit a member of the IMPPA said IMPPA paid homage to the martyrs who were killed in Uri It therefore felt its responsibility towards the nation and passed a resolution banning Pakistani Actors amp technicians in India till normalcy returns For IMPPA nation comes firstThe decision came amid demands by various political outfits to ban Pakistani artistes from Indian films and performing in IndiaThe decision to ban Pakistani actors and technicians was hailed by some Twitterati but others questioned the move Many Pakistani nationals took to the microblogging site to blast the move and demanded a reciprocal ban on Indian movies and actorsTHOSE WHO HAIL THE MOVEClearly NOT day for PakistanIMPPA passes a resolution to BAN all the Paki actors and technicians till further noticeBRAVO ethAcircu00c2u009fAcircu00c2u0099Acircu00c2u008fethAcircu00c2u009fAcircu00c2u0099Acircu00c2u008fethAcircu00c2u009fAcircu00c2u0099Acircu00c2u008fmdash Shwetank shwetankbhushan September 29 2016Excellent decision IMPPA This time no compromise no let go Only strong action httpstcoK3zUYAvZa2mdash Darshan Soni DarshanSoniCRPC September 29 2016well done imppa httpstco9dkrm54Q9Qmdash Rajeev Singh rajanshu September 29 2016The best way to defeat Pakistan is to make their artists revolt against the evil establishment of their country Congrats to IMPPA Indiamdash Charles Michael Thinkedge September 29 2016IMPPA bans PAkistan actors Finally good sense prevailedmdash ajay jagga apjagga September 29 2016Yesterday Pakistan ban Dhonis movie amp today IMPPA passes resolution banning Pakistani artistes amp techniciansPower of msdhoni ethAcircu00c2u009fAcircu00c2u0098Acircu00c2u0089ethAcircu00c2u009fAcircu00c2u0098Acircu00c2u009bmdash Yash Desai fearlessNerd September 29 2016A comendalabe step by IMPPA by banning Pakistani actors and actresses we dont need them they need us Its time to show them our worthmdash Aditya Singh adityatg7 September 29 2016SOME WHO OPPOSED ITShoaibDaniyal The actors artistes and cricketers of Pakistan are not the enemies of India The terrorists are Theres a differencemdash Pritish Nandy PritishNandy September 24 2016PakistanArtists Evil planners across d border must b having a chuckle Got what they aimed 4 Vud d scare n paranoia not harm our economymdash Vinod Pande vinodbpande September 24 2016Be it Syria r Pak Punishing citizens for regimes arrogant politics is incorrectsends wrong message PakistanArtists BoycottPakOrNotmdash Saichandu Kalam saichandukalam September 23 2016THEY WANT INDIAN MOVIES BANNED IN PAKISTANNow that they have banned Pakistani Actors in bollywood reportpemra should ban Indian content and movies in Pakistan TitForTatmdash OslashmicroOslashumlOslashsect OslashsectOslashsup1UgraveAcircu00c2u0088OslashsectUgraveAcircu00c2u0086ethAcircu00c2u009fAcircu00c2u0092curren Sab_PK September 29 2016Dekho dekho sher aaya Hehe Hamza Ali Abbasi calls on Pakistan actors to boycott Bollywood India httpstcoyG517qkF4Zmdash Mehreen ZahraMalik mehreenzahra September 29 2016We should ban Bollywood movies too then AliZafarsays _fawadakhan_ itsaadee hope u guys have learnt ur lesson httpstcoNSJbbxoBqamdash Saima DaLondonGirl September 29 2016