Recently, Indian media claimed that Pakistan had added Bollywood actor Salman Khan to its list of terrorists. The claim surfaced after Salman Khan mentioned Balochistan during his talk at the “Joy Forum 2025” held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Indian outlets reported that Pakistan had placed him under the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for allegedly supporting “Free Balochistan.”
According to those reports, a supposed government notification was issued on October 16, 2025, by the Balochistan Home Department, naming Salman Khan as a supporter of “Azad Balochistan” and listing him under the Fourth Schedule.
However, when Pakistani media investigated the document, several inconsistencies appeared.
The reference number on the fake notification (No. SO (Judl: II)/8 (1)/2025/ATA/5995-6018) was identical to one found on a previously verified official document shared on social media by a user named Shale Baloch on October 21.
Further checking revealed that the notification was dated October 16 — a day before Salman Khan attended the Joy Forum on October 17. The document’s layout, font, alignment, ID format, and other details did not match official Pakistani formats.
It even had a spelling error in the word “Balochistan,” and the signature was exactly the same as the one on the genuine document shared earlier — proving that the file had been digitally edited.
Officials from the Balochistan Home Department and Pakistani intelligence agencies confirmed that the notification was fake and no such order was ever issued.
As for Salman Khan’s original statement, he had simply said, “People from Balochistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are working here, which is why films succeed quickly.”
Indian media took this line out of context and gave it a political twist.
The claim that Pakistan declared Salman Khan a terrorist is completely false. It was based on a fake document circulated by Indian media.
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