This is the ‘blasphemous’ moment that landed Bollywood star Veena Malik with a 26 year jail sentence.
A Pakistani court has decided that the sequence, which featured in a television programme in May, is deeply offensive and should result in prison sentences for four people involved.
The 30-year-old actress, along with her husband Asad Bashir Khan Khattak, the owner of the company that aired the programme Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and TV host Shaista Wahidi were given 104 years in jail between them this week.
The court objects to the use of a “contemptuous” qawwali – a traditional form of South Asian music – in the programme.
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