Pakistan Declared Salman Khan A Terrorist? Here’s The Truth.

A few days ago, actor Salman Khan’s speech at the Joy Forum 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which he attended alongside other Bollywood superstars, including Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, stirred controversy when he mentioned Balochistan and Pakistan separately. He said, “Right now, if you make a Hindi film and release it here (in Saudi Arabia), it will be a superhit. If you make a Tamil, Telugu, or Malayali film, it will do hundreds of crores in business because so many people from other countries have come here. There are people from Balochistan, there are people from Afghanistan, there are people from Pakistan… everyone is working here.”  Against this backdrop, a social media post went viral which claimed that Pakistan has declared Salman Khan a terrorist after his Balochistan remarks.

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However, as we investigated, we came to know that the claim was false. Here’s the fact check.

Fact Check 

We noticed some grammatical mistakes in the viral document which have been highlighted below.

Moreover, the viral document is dated October 16, 2025 and refers to a document dated 7 October, 2025. But Salman Khan delivered his speech in the Joy Forum on 17 October 2025. The live stream video can be seen here.

Taking this clue, we conducted a relevant keyword search. This led us to a report published in the Hindustan Times on 29 October 2025. According to the report, Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has refuted the claim. 

We couldn’t access the X handle of Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as it has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand. With the help of our Sri Lankan team, we accessed the X handle and found the tweet on 26 October 2025. 

The tweet read, “Fact Check| Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

🟠 Claim:

Salman Khan has allegedly been placed on Pakistan’s “Fourth Schedule” under its Anti-Terrorism Act after making remarks about Balochistan, and is labelled a “terror facilitator”. (Reported by India Today and other Indian outlets) 

✅ Reality:

•No Pakistani government official statement, notification or entry was found on NACTA’s proscribed persons page or any Ministry of Interior / provincial Home Department gazette notifying Salman Khan’s inclusion in Fourth Schedule. 

•All publicly available reports stem from Indian media outlets repeating the allegation, but none trace back to an official Pakistani watch-list publication or formal announcement.

•In absence of verifiable primary evidence, the claim remains unverified and false.

•Given the optics, this appears to be a sensational headline rather than a substantiated fact.

📌 Possible Motives for Spreading the Story

•Click-bait & sensationalism: Bollywood stars generate huge traffic; linking them to “terror” in the cross-border Pakistan-India context heightens eyeballs.

•Narrative amplification: Reinforces a familiar Indian media trope of Pakistan acting aggressively or arbitrarily aligns with domestic audiences’ expectations.

•Distraction or diversion: Possibly used to shift focus from other issues by creating a high-profile controversy involving a popular celebrity.

•Political signalling: Even if false, such stories can serve to raise tensions, reinforce nationalistic sentiment, or feed into broader bilateral rivalry narratives.

📢 Advisory:

•Always check for official Pakistani government notifications (Interior Ministry, Home Department Balochistan, Anti-Terrorism Act schedules) before accepting such claims.

•Treat celebrity-related national-security headlines with caution, verify via primary legal documents, not second-hand media.

•Be aware of the propaganda value of such stories in an India-Pakistan context, they may serve agendas beyond facts.”

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A reverse image search led us to a tweet on the X handle Baloch Women Forum which contained a document with the same serial number and letter number as that of the viral one. 

A comparison between the two can be seen below.

This indicates that the viral document is likely to be an edited version of this one.

This makes it clear that the claim is false.

Conclusion

From our investigation, we can say that the claim is false. Actor Salman Khan has not been declared a terrorist by Pakistan. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has refuted the viral claim.