Aliza Sultan, Feroze Khan’s ex-wife, continues to receive support from Pakistan’s entertainment sector. In a lawsuit involving the custody of their two children, she had shown emergency department records and pictures of her bruises as evidence of abuse in a Karachi family court. Mira Sethi, the most recent famous person to stand up for Sultan, acknowledged the charges as “extremely serious” on Twitter.
In a tweet sent on Thursday, author-actor Sethi mentioned meeting Sultan and her family. The charges are really serious, and people should take them seriously, she stated.
She also related an exchange she had with Sultan’s dad. Khan’s powerful build “surprised” Sultan’s father, according to Sethi, who questioned why he would use it to beat his daughter.
Zara Noor Abbas, Asad Siddiqui, and Mawra Hocane had already offered their support to Sultan before Sethi’s post. According to Abbas, “Men like Feroze Khan need to be condemned to inform them their true status in the world and not the righteous’ character that they portray. They think that they are the ‘selected’ ones and can do anything in the name of Allah and power.” In a letter, her husband Siddiqui stated that beating women “is never appropriate” and reveals one’s actual character.
Iqra Aziz, who starred alongside Khan in Khuda Aur Muhabbat, also cancelled their collaboration “as a show of sympathy for victims of domestic abuse.” Mansha Pasha, Ushna Shah, Sarwat Gilani, Usman Mukhtar, Osman Khalid Butt, Mariyam Nafees, and other celebrities joined her in her social media campaign in support of the actress from the Khaani.
Upon seeing pictures of Sultan with bruises on social media, as well as her emergency room and MLO reports, the entertainment community rallied behind her on Tuesday. Khan issued a statement of his own refuting the “baseless, spiteful, and untruthful claims” made against him after facing scathing condemnation from both the entertainment community and internet users a short while earlier.
In his statement, Khan also expressed a threat to sue anyone responsible for “rumours” they had circulated.