Singer Adnan Sami hit back hard at former Pakistani minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain after Hussain questioned his Indian citizenship. The row erupted after India asked Pakistani nationals to leave the country following the Pahalgam terror attack.
Responding to a directive from Union Home Minister Amit Shah for Pakistani citizens to exit India by April 27, Hussain mockingly asked on social media, “What about Adnan Sami?”
Sami, who became an Indian citizen in 2016, didn’t hold back. He fired off a blunt reply, tweeting, “Who’s going to tell this illiterate idiot!”
The argument escalated when Hussain incorrectly claimed Sami hailed from Lahore. Correcting him, Sami tweeted, “My roots are from Peshawar, not Lahore!! To think that you were Minister of (Mis) Information and have no knowledge of any information… And you were Minister of Science? Was that the science of BULLS**T??”
Fawad Hussain previously served as Pakistan’s Minister of Information and Minister of Science and Technology under former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Currently residing in Mumbai with his family, Sami has openly discussed his journey to Indian citizenship, explaining how he was “stateless for a year and a half” before finally receiving his Indian passport. He also shared in a BBC interview that he felt unsafe in Pakistan, which motivated his decision to seek Indian nationality.
Published – April 27, 2025 10:33 am IST