Entertainment Industry Still Vulnerable, Nadeem Jafri Got Shot In Karachi

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th june, 2016) : Gun fire by a group of suspected robbers left the famous Actor, television host and musician Nadeem Jafri sseriously injured in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area on Thursday.“My dear friend artist Nadeem Jafri was shot at multiple times at sehri time today in a robbery.

He survived miraculously. Thank you Allah.” Fakhr-e-Alam expressed his sentiments. Agitation spread within the pakistani artist community when Amjad Sabri was suspiciously murdered Last week. Various participants of the Pakistani entertainment industry expressed solidarity by uploading a video containing a message according to which media industry also demands the same security arrangements as the government officials are provided.

The video was lead by Fakhr-e-Alam followed by some of the industry’s most recognizable faces — including Faisal Qureshi, Faakhir and Maria Wasti. Quoting the Sindh board of Film Censors chairman words in the video, “We are deeply shocked by Amjad Sabri’s death and have realized that there is no one to look after our safety and security.

We want the same security that the government officials are being given. And if that does not happen, then government officials should also give up their protocols so that we at least feel that all of us are equally vulnerable.”