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Actor/singer Ali Zafar's video unites Pakistani musicians, actors and sports stars to pay tribute to the victims of Peshawar attack. (Screen grab)
Pakistani singer Ali Zafar, who recently paid a tribute to Peshawar victims in a video featuring over 30 members of the media fraternity, said that they all got together because they all want a progressive, peaceful, tolerant and positive Pakistan.
In an interview with CNN, the 34-year-old singer asserted that response to the song and video further solidified his belief that every Pakistani wants the same and they just needed someone to show them the way and to him, education was the way forward.
Three months since the devastating Peshawar school attack, in which over 130 students lost their lives, singer-actor Ali Zafar has urged the world to help Pakistan out of extremist darkness.
"Pakistan needs your help. It has been fighting this battle for years and has lost countless lives in the process," the actor urged in his blog.
The actor wrote: "The world needs to see Pakistan in a whole different light to help us out of this darkness. They need to partner with us towards progress."
"This is something that we all need to work towards — the international community and us," he added.
Ali stressed the need for the world to understand the complexities of Pakistani society and the "fact that it’s not easy to survive through all that this country has been through."
"Unfortunately because of an extremist minority, it is sometimes seen as an extremist country. But no society is void of extremism in one way or the other."
On movie front the singer-actor has excused himself from various Bollywood projects because he wants to be with his family.
Ali Zafar became a proud father again in February and wife Ayesha Fazli delivered a baby girl in Lahore.
The couple, who got married in 2009, also has a four-year-old boy Azaan.
The actor wants to be by his wife and help Ayesha move into the new home.
The actor will later start shooting for two films in India which he is tight lipped about.
Ali made his Bollywood debut in 2010 with 'Tere Bin Laden' and went on to do films like 'Mere Brother Ki Dulhan', 'Chashme Baddoor' and was recently seen in 'Kill Dil'
Ali, who has appeared in several commercials in Pakistan, has also acted in TV serials 'Lunda-Bazar', 'Kanch Ke Par' and teenage sitcom 'Kollege Jeans' in his home country.
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