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In Pakistan, what Javed Akhtar said about terrorists, 26/11, concerts by Indians in Lahore

Writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar, who was in Lahore recently, said that the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks are still roaming free in Pakistan and it's justified that Indians have complaints against it. 

He further said, "We hosted big events of Nusrat, Mehdi Hasan...in your country no performance of Lata Mangeshkar was ever organised. We saw how Mumbai was attacked...they (terrorists) neither came from Norway nor from Egypt..they are still roaming freely in your country."

Akhtar was attending a festival organised in memory of renowned Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Lahore.     

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