Riyadh: A comment on Balochistan by Bollywood actor Salman Khan at an event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has sparked off a major debate on social media.

Salman, while speaking at the Joy Forum 2025 described the diverse South Asian communities working in the Middle East and mentioned Balochistan as a distinct nation. Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan were also present on the dais at that time. ADVERTISEMENT

“Right now, if you make a Hindi film and release it here (in Saudi Arabia), it will be a superhit. If you make a Tamil, Telugu, or Malayali film, it will do hundreds of crores in business because so many people from other countries have come here. There are people from Balochistan, there are people from Afghanistan, there are people from Pakistan… everyone is working here.”

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