Having fond memories of visiting Peshawar as a teenager with his father, Shahrukh Khan hopes to take his three children to visit his family’s hometown, and hopes relations between India and Pakistan become friendlier.
The Indian film superstar spoke fondly of Peshawar when former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar asked him about visiting her country. “I’d love to! My family is from Peshawar and few of them still live there,” he said.
“I would love to come to Peshawar and bring my children over, because my father took me there when I was 15 or 16. I still have some of the greatest memories of the time I spent with my father in Peshawar, Karachi and Lahore. I want to take my kids there,” said Khan.
The 47-year-old was born in Delhi, but his late father, Taj Mohammad Khan, was originally from Peshawar. Khan has three children with wife Gauri — Aryan, Suhana and AbRam.
Khan also hopes the two countries forget their differences and join forces to achieve “the greatest of things possible for each other”.
“I hope with whatever issues and stresses we have… I hope we become friends, we become friendlier, we become like a family and one together,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2013.
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