Lahore/Karachi: Pakistani actress Veena Malik has announced
she is quitting commercial films and will only take part in projects
with religious and social messages as an Islamic cleric has changed her
life completely.
"I have quit the show-biz industry. From now onwards, I will not
perform in Pakistani and Indian movies and plays," said the 29-year-old
actress who created a storm by posing topless for an Indian magazine.
"I am also going to refuse Indian film producers with whom I had
agreed to work in their movies," she said in an interview to a Pakistani
journalist in Saudi Arabia, where she had gone to perform 'Umrah' with
her Dubai-based husband Asad Bashir Khan Khattak and his family.
Malik said she would continue to "engage in any project which aims
for welfare or social development" but would not be part of any new
films.
She said religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel had changed her
life completely. "Maulana sahib made me promise not to take off my
dupatta (head scarf). And I will fulfil this promise for the rest of my
life," she said. Malik said well-wishers from across the globe,
including Indians and Pakistanis, have been congratulating her and
Khattak on her decision.
"Like other humans I have also committed mistakes. I have sought
forgiveness of my mistakes from God. Now I want to work for the welfare
of the people of Pakistan," she said. Malik asked people to pray that
she would be able to stick to the change in her life. "I have quit
showbiz and I want people to pray for me so that I can stick to this
change." However, a source in the media industry told PTI that Malik
has plans to host a morning show with her husband on a Pakistani news
channel.
"Veena is in talks with the management of two news channels for
the morning talk show," the source said. Malik married Pakistani
businessman-cum-singer Khattak in Dubai last year.
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