Actor Gauahar Khan is spending her birthday wishing for peace to unfold throughout the world and hoping for a stop to the exploitation of humans withinside the call of religion.
“I spend every birthday, in fact, every day, wanting peace in the world. I want the suffering to end. I want people to just stop (doing) everything in the name of power, religion, and just exploiting people’s minds, taking them away from the real issues. I want people to find peace and happiness,” shares Khan, who turns 38 on August 23.
Throughout the years, Khan has been vocal about approximate troubles that matter, from patriarchal mindset to international conflicts, consisting of the continuing Afghanistan disaster and the usual Islamophobia. She makes use of social media to voice her opinions.s.
“Right now, everybody is talking about Taliban entering Afghanistan, which is crazy. I want to know how many people spoke up about the issues that were happening in Afghanistan in the last 20 years when America was there. It was not all happy or hunky-dory,” points the actor, adding, “It was a war zone, people were still dying. The Taliban was still attacking people. It was not a peaceful land, Syria is not peaceful, Palestine is not peaceful, but nobody speaks about it. I feel it is a media operated propaganda that people want to be selective about the causes that they support.”
According to Khan, humanity exists across religions, sex, faiths and countries.