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Pakistani actress Veena Malik, currently in Dubai, has expressed disbelief at a verdict by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentencing her to 26 years in prison for blasphemy after she acted in a scene loosely based on the marriage of the prophet Mohammad’s daughter.
She said she planned to return to Pakistan next month to fight the verdict.
In comments published by Dubai’s Gulf News, she said: “I have always been a person who faced troubles by looking it in the eye. I have faced highs and lows in my life. But I am sure I haven’t done anything wrong.”
A Pakistan court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of the country’s biggest media group to 26 years in prison for broadcasting a show it said was blasphemous.
The verdict was handed down against Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman along with the host of the show and two guests, including Malik, in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region.
But, according to Gulf News, the order is unlikely to be implemented because verdicts by courts in the region do not apply to the rest of the country.
The four people convicted were also ordered to pay a fine of AED47,700, sell their properties and surrender their passports, according to a copy of the court order.
The morning show broadcast live on Geo TV in May featured Malik dancing with her new husband while a group of Sufi musicians sang a devotional song about the wedding of the Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) daughter.
Malik urged her fans to watch the YouTube clip of the show.
She was quoted as saying: “I would surely want the common people who read the news to watch the clip. I was a guest on the show along with my husband and I was just seated in a respectable manner.”
Malik, who returned to Dubai two weeks ago from the US after giving birth to a baby boy, said her lawyer is already at work to appeal against the verdict in higher courts.
She added: “How could they pass a judgement against a woman who just delivered a baby through C-section? I dreamt of building a hospital in Pakistan and do other good work. This sentence is ridiculous and I am innocent. I feel emotionally broken.”
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