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Pulwama attack ‘major Imran achievement’: Pakistan minister to Parliament

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Pulwama attack ‘major Imran achievement’: Pakistan minister to Parliament

In what quantities to an admission — for the primary time — of Pakistan’s function withinside the February 14, 2019 Pulwama terror assault, the country’s minister Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday stated the jihadi strike become a “important achievement” below the management of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
In his feedback at the ground of the National Assembly, Chaudhry stated the assault become a achievement of each the treasury and competition benches. Though the assertion become a reaction to a jibe from PML-N chief Sardar Ayaz Sadiq that the country’s navy caved in to an Indian chance of retaliation if captured IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan become now no longer returned, science & generation minister Chaudhry ended up admitting the fear strike become Pakistan’s doing.
Sadiq had claimed an afternoon in advance withinside the National Assembly that the Imran Khan authorities had launched Abhinandan fearing an impending assault from India. The IAF pilot become captured after an unsuccessful Pakistani try to bomb goals in India after the February 26 Balakot strike via way of means of the IAF.
“Humne Hindustan mein ghus ke unko maara (We hit India of their home). Our achievement in Pulwama is a achievement of this state below the management of Imran Khan. You (competition) and we (authorities) are all a part of that achievement,” Chaudhry stated in reaction to Sadiq’s claim. He regarded to be borrowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s phrases describing the IAF movement on a jihad nursery in Balakot.
On Wednesday, Sadiq claimed that the authorities had “pleaded” with parliamentary leaders that Abhinandan be allowed to be set free. “I don’t forget overseas minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi become found in that meeting, which the high minister had refused to attend. The leader of military workforce become additionally present,” Sadiq had stated on Wednesday.
“With his legs shaking and sweat on his forehead, Qureshi advised us, ‘For God’s sake, permit him (Abhinandan) pass lower back now, in any other case India will assault Pakistan at 9pm’,” Sadiq quoted Qureshi as saying.
Meanwhile, Pakistan military spokesperson Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar stated that any try to hyperlink Abhinandan’s launch with “some thing aside from the country’s mature reaction as a accountable country become disappointing and misleading”.Addressing a press convention on Thursday with a one-factor agenda, Iftikhar stated he sought to “accurate the record” concerning the activities that surrounded India’s violation of Pakistani airspace in February remaining year.
“A assertion become given the day gone by which attempted to distort the records of problems related to country wide security,” he stated, relating to Sadiq’s assertion.
He stated following the Pulwama assault, India “confirmed aggression in opposition to Pakistan in violation of all global legal guidelines on February 26, 2019, wherein now no longer handiest did it face defeat however become humiliated round the arena”.
“Pakistani armed forces’ alert and well timed reaction foiled the enemy’s designs. The enemy planes that had come to drop the explosives at the Pakistani humans escaped whilst losing their payload on empty mountains in panic after seeing our Shaheens,” the spokesperson stated.
“Pakistan spoke back to India in huge daytime after pronouncing it. Not handiest did we deliver the appropriate reply, however additionally shot down enemy strugglefare planes and captured Wing Commander Abhinandan,” the navy spokesperson stated.
“During those actions, the enemy have become so fearful that it shot down its very own helicopter and troops in a country of panic. This victory now no longer handiest uncovered India’s hole claims of electricity earlier than the arena however made the whole Pakistani state proud,” he stated.
“Being a accountable country, the authorities of Pakistan, so one can deliver peace every other chance, determined to launch Indian prisoner of strugglefare Wing Commander Abhinandan,” he added, emphasising that this decision, which become in step with the Geneva Convention, become praised the arena over.

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

In conversation with Hindustan Times, Teja Sajja decodes the success of HanuMan and other Telugu films, talks about his upcoming projects, and more.
When Prasanth Varma’s superhero film HanuMan, starring Teja Sajja, was announced to be released alongside big films like Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram, Venkatesh’s Saindhav and Nagarjuna’s Naa Saami Ranga in January this year, no one expected the underdog to emerge on top. And yet, the film, made on a budget of under ₹50 crore, managed to collect over ₹300 crore at the box office worldwide in 25 days, becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films for the year. (Also Read: Ranveer Singh met HanuMan actor Teja Sajja, complimented him even after his Prasanth Varma film Rakshas got shelved)

Ask Teja about the moment he realised his film had not just fought against the tide but also risen to the top; he tells Hindustan Times in an exclusive conversation, “Since I returned to acting (as a lead actor after being a child artiste since 1998), this is the moment I’ve been waiting for. When everything from the HanuMan teaser to the songs was grabbing attention, we knew we had hit a gold mine. But I don’t think we imagined it would cross the ₹300 crore threshold. We were so satisfied with the opening numbers; everything else was a bonus.”

‘Success has given me fear of disappointing people’

Teja acted in Zombie Reddy, Ishq and Adbhutham before HanuMan, but they are what you would call ‘critical successes’, adding to his repertoire as an actor who can perform. But things have changed for him now, says Teja, who is being picky about the roles he says yes to. “Success either makes you overconfident or gives you the fear of disappointing people; I have the latter,” he explains.

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Teja admits he wants to chart out his career in Hrithik Roshan’s footsteps, but not in the way you think. “I have such a fondness for Hrithik due to Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish. No matter how well he performed after that, these left a lasting impression on me; I’m sure 90s kids will agree,” he says, adding, “Similarly, I’ve realised that I have an audience in children now. I want to be conscious of that when I pick roles. I want to make films families can enjoy together.”

But despite people in places like Mumbai or Delhi recognising him, Teja says he’s clear that he wants to cater to the Telugu audience first. “I am conscious that I am making films for my playground – the Telugu states. This is the sensibility I have grown up with, and I don’t know if I can cater to everyone else. Will I promote my films in other languages? Sure. But I also can’t be part of films that aren’t authentic to what I know or understand,” he explains.

‘Rootedness has put us on the world map’

And authenticity seems to be the need of the hour. Be it Baahubali and RRR or the recently released Pushpa 2: The Rule, Kalki 2898 AD and Devara: Part 1, certain kind of stories seem to be finding success. “Rootedness and going local is proving to be such a boon for us, be it in Devara or Pushpa or HanuMan. Kalki 2898 AD was our version of a Hollywood film (the sci-fi concept) with actors from across languages in predominant roles; it put us on the world map,” reflects Teja.

However, the actor admits Tollywood went through a phase of Bollywood-inspired rom-coms and family dramas that worked in their favour for a while. “That wasn’t easy to replicate either, but it’s just that these local stories are what the audience seems most interested in now. It can’t just be chalked up to religion, too. It’s about the morals these films are hinged on, the fighting for righteousness, and how an underdog can find their strength. Introducing Mahabharata or Ramayana to a new audience in a cool way is just a perk,” he says.

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And it’s this rootedness that Teja says his next films, Mirai and Jai Hanuman (the sequel to HanuMan), will also have ample of. “Mirai is also a superhero film that caters to kids, but it’s not an origin story like HanuMan. It has a pan-Asian and Buddhist touch because the story is based on King Ashoka’s ideologies. I hope that I will get to deliver something new to the audience again. I will only feel like I’ve arrived if Mirai is equally, if not more, successful,” says Teja.

Rishab Shetty will headline Jai Hanuman, but Teja also looks forward to shooting that. “I can’t wait to be on that set; it’ll be exciting. Now that we know India is ready to watch our films, I want to step it up. I want to shift gears and shoot for at least two films in 2025,” he says. As for what he will do next, Teja says he wants to up the ante. “When I got a SIIMA award for Zombie Reddy as a debutant, I remember telling Prasanth this would be the last award I get. But now that I won a Radio City Cine Award for Best Actor, I hope more awards will follow,” he signs off cheekily.

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