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A row has broken out
between India and Pakistan after Islamabad's suggestion that Delhi
provide security to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
Home Secretary RK Singh said India was "quite capable" of taking care of the security of its people. On Monday, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik requested India to provide security to the actor.
This came after Khan wrote a first-person account of how it felt to be a Muslim in India.
"I sometimes become the inadvertent object of political leaders who choose to make me a symbol of all that they think is wrong and unpatriotic about Muslims in India," the actor wrote in Outlook Turning Points, published by India's Outlook magazine in association with the New York Times.
"There have been occasions when I have been accused of bearing allegiance to our neighbouring nation than my own country - this even though I am an Indian whose father fought for the freedom of India.
"Rallies have been held where leaders have exhorted me to leave my home and return to what they refer to as my original homeland," he wrote.
Biggest star On Monday, Rehman Malik said the actor was "born Indian and he would like to remain Indian, but I will request the government of India (to) please provide him security. I would like to request all Indian brothers and sisters and all those who are talking in a negative way about Shah Rukh, they should know he is a movie star".
India on Tuesday dismissed Mr Malik's suggestion and advised him to look after the security of Pakistani citizens.
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