Hamza Ali Abbasi speaks up against religious intolerance

Actor Hamza Ali Abbasi on Friday highlighted religious intolerance in Pakistani society and called for an end to what he called hypocrisy.

Taking to Twitter, Hamza said that Pakistan is a Muslim majority nation-state and everyone who had resided in the boundary of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 became an equal citizen of the country.

"Pakistan is not an empire/kingdom. We Muslims didnt CONQUER Pakistan, we are a Muslim Majority Nation State. On 14th August 1947 every 1 who resided in the boundary of PAK BECAME AN EQUAL CITIZEN, [sic]" he wrote on Twitter.