Nice!!

Shanzay. I love you for this comment. We are not like them at all.

Very well said. Secondly this Naresh could not say much about looks so he started talking about so called respect in the western world. I live in the west myself and Indian don't fare much better except in a few very small circles when it comes to respect. But this is an another subject matter. I can tell in a heart beat a Pakistani vs. Indian. Most Pakistanis have sharp features and have beautiful fair complexions, nothing like brown Indians as this Naresh guy has described his race. Just take a casual walk in one of the markets on the streets of Karachi, or Lahore or Quetta or Islamabad, the beauty commonly found on the streets will blow any indian delusion. Note, I am strictly talking about local Pakistani girls, not the ones whose parents have migrated from India.

well all Kareena is saying she can pass as a pakistani. firstly its not all about looks its everything else but the looks. the looks would have mattered if she would have said that i can pass as a caucasian.

i can't agree more;you just have to look at pakistan's history and realise the beautiful admixture of greek,persian,central asian and arab influence.we are as similar or disimilar as indi a and iran except sharing borders.however,part of the reason for indian films popularity is thay feel they co own the industry due to presence of the three khans

The fact that I can for the most part tell apart Pakistanis from Indians by the entire demeanor suggests that Pakistanis have now evolved into another distinct identity. The dialect, the clothing and the overall get up is now different. I am not sure though whats Ms. Kapoor had in mind when she said that she can pass for a Pakistani. Is it the language, looks or mannerism.

let there be a competition, Pakistani drama/film actresses/models versus Indian actresses, WITHOUT MAKEUP, Pakistani girls rock !!!

well..stop saying that pakistani people looks like indians or are as u said the girls look same as mentioned above..truelyyy false..as ai m from karachi,sindh..we dont have girls like indians..pakistani people are way too good looking even if u see our common people as well as people from media..

I am sorry to hear that but all of us do want to make it a place worth living for everyone.

kareena from father side is from peshawar and mother sindhi most of the hindu / sikhs from west pak share features with locals

we need more substance and less superficiality, please

As an Indian, I have great respect for DAWN, but every time they bring this kind of useless news, they disappoint me and a large section of readers like me..I don't know how many of you will agree with me, but in India, people (specially girls, and even more specially Bollywood actresses) can do anything for publicity and now a days in India showing love for Pakistan and Pakistanis has became a publicity stunt for these Bollywood actors/actresses..It is not like that I (as an individual or many people like me) hate Pakistan or it's people, but we all know the real situation and relations between these two countries and so we should behave accordingly..By giving useless importance to these actressess DAWN is not only fulfilling their hunger for publicity but also is disappointing readers like me who visit this site for some good, impartial and quality journlism...

Well, given that her father's family orginates from Peshawar and her mother is Sindhi, its hardly a surprise. But then again, the north Indians and Pakistanis all look the same, ask any westerner. The mannerism may be different based on the amount of conservative or liberal influences.

depends if she thinks is comparing to south indians. because North indians and pakistanis look the same. With the exception of non bordering areas like baluchistan and pathan areas

we would to see them. Where are they. Please post their picture.

no sweetie, you cant, please stop dreaming. pakistanis settled abroad (like me) can tell the difference between indian and pakistani girls in the blink of an eye and you dont look pakistani at all!

absoultlyyyy wroooong..!!! i m a Pakistani.

take it easy guys . that was sweet of her to say so !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutly wrooooooong....lolz its only spread by Inidans that we are same..Pakistanis are way different from Indians..we are two different nations from subcontinent...Its only 1947 that gives ache to Indians..and they give such sily remarks..lolzz...We hold our own identity as Pakistani....Indians should accept this fact now.

yeah sure Pakistanis have so many whitish skin and coloured eyes mixed with some few foreigners or staying indoors or wearing burkhas. What about all those Pakistanis with black skin?

of course there are some pakistanis of greek or turkik extraction who look quite different but son of the soil pakistanis are not very different.don't forget that pakistan is also home to a large number of people who traditionally lived in eastern india or bangladesh.so what you said above does not hold true for majority

Better off in what respect, looks?

Great. Tidy little explanation for everything.

Indian and Pakistanis are the same people.

What a ridiculous explanation. If they were born in the area which is now Pakistan. They are very much Pakistanis

All I know is that Pakistan people always have Identity Complex... They really don't know where and which race they belong to ...

we hold our own identity...As asia is a largest subcontinent but every country in asia has its own identity...PAKSITAN is a reality..try to accept it.

Kareena is technically an ethnic Pakistan as her family belongs to Pakistan. I disagree with your ''general'' statements. i find Pakistani's look quite distinct from indians who have more of Dravidian undertone to their features and skin tone. The exception being Mohajir migrant refugees from india who live in Pakistan such as yourself. But most native Pakistani's have a distinct look which is easily discernable.

good one rahul

Gerry, looks like you have tasted the essence of Pakistan in a big way. Sorry mate. Really sorry for you. However Kareena has nothing to worry about.

A pretty dumb comment, Not all Pakistanis and Indians are from Punjab or closer areas!!! The people of South India look very different from North West India or North East India let alone the western border of Pakistan. Both countries are huge with a huge mix of looks and both are "federations" of different ethnic background. In fact there are possibly no/few homogeneous countries in the world.

Clearly you have not seen girls from Pakistan ! North Indians and Pakistanis are a completely different race then south Indianss

Foreigners with whitish skin tone and colored eyes...who talks like this. For your information, there are more people in India with whitish skin and colored eyes than all of Pakistan.

Really? And how many Pakistanis do you actually know?

Calm down sardar ji. No need to split hairs. Its OK.

i guess you have a poor knowledge... y cant you think beyond urself.

I think Kareena said what she said on a lighter note complimenting Pakistanis since she was being interviewed for a Pakistani publication; however it's sad to see all you guys taking it too seriously and a bit too far and unfortunately all your traditional biases are showing - it's not nice! Just take it as a courtesy comment by a star, nothing more nothing less!

you said it man......

this is nonsense. how can you tell? half my family migrated to india, and half stayed in pakistan. good luck trying to tell us apart. shahrukh khan's family was originally from rawalpindi.

What a pity that the comments are full of hate. Will there ever be a clip/video about these two countries which is not haunted by keyboard wars in the comments section? You were ONE country just 65 years ago; don't let instructed nationalism compromise your intellect.

The people of Punjab and Sindh are definitely the same as their cousins in India. Pashtun people of Pakistan however are little different. But then again there are lots of Pashtun in India as well.

Really ray?

LOL, Umar akmal, Kamran akmal, sohail tanveer, younis khan and many more like them must be some of the most handsome men in Pakistan. How many foreigners visit pakistan? may be 1 or 2. Stop making things up and don't live in an imaginative world.

Pakistan is no Iceland thus when people from Pakistan claim to be fairer than us it is not only funny but sounds childish too. Majority of us belong to the same group called Indo-Aryan and Dravidian. As far beautiful girls are concern.. Indians have them in plenty and so does Pakistan Tell me how many Pakistani cricketers are white skin, they all look dark. We South Asians are same when it comes to looks, Some may be fair, and some may be wheatish but at the end of the day we all look from the ethnic group..

there are very few people..u can resemble with indians very very few people ..and they are also from karachi cuz many families migrated from bombay to karachi..even after 50s till 80s...otherwise my own family and friends are very good looking even my few cousins look like irish people and he is in England...and i can tell a nomber of people from pakistani media..but they are countless so the page cant get that much space lolz..Pakistanis are amongst the few most beautiful nations of the world...

If you look at it like that then they were not born in India either. They were born in the British empire.

It is true that we are fair and Indians are not. Still in denial eh!. Most Pakistanis look just like Indians and only a handful of both Pakistanis and Indians are fair skinned.

I hope you'll sleep better tonight :)

as much as we love and adore your work, the fact remains that there is a distinct difference in the way Pakistani and Indian girls look...

They are the same people - mostly Rajput, Gujjar and Jat ! Glory to Hind.

Kareena does.

lol. i am settled abroad as well. if you are talking about looks then u r right. but sif you mean how they dress up then you are wrong..

hahahahahaha

Oh please girls from northern pakistan, Punjab and northern India look alike whereas girls from Karachi and sindh are like south Indian girls

no they are not Pakistanis. You chased them out and they had to flee for their lives.

well said.

copying Holywood movies..look at ur cinema.. ur cinema survives of bcz of Indian hindi films..

No really! very different, physically, emotionally, morally, socially. Yes there are cultural similarities.

You speak as if no such problems exist in India..we both have exactly the same issues my friend

good one.

You are right,it happened long time ago.It was right or wrong does not make any differance now.Forget what happened in the past,we have to move forward.

she should send to pakistan alongwith his family.

How civilised and beautiful a person, both inside and outside.

unfortunately the comments are too racist, its disturbing for me whose family is divided into the two countries, please people we live in 21st century, stop wasting time on colour comments, Salman

Pakistanis and North Indians look quite similar anyway.

Kareena has failed with diminishing colours by playing as a Pakistani, she should stick to her role as an indian.

The key question is " Do you want to pass off as a Pakistani?". Kareena , you will have to forget all the exotic locations where you shoot your films, as you will never get the visa, if you try to pass off as a Pakistani.

yawnnnnnn

Her parents are not from Pakistan.. they are from the area that was made into Pakistan but when her and my parents were there they were very much in India.

before 1947 India was one country.punjabis,sindhis who setteled in south india have same genes as in present Pakistan.hence they look alike

you pakistanis are beautiful but 99% are uneducated brainless people

we know very well that pakistanis talk in racist terms of the slight difference in appearance between an average indian and a pakistani.there was no reason to say what she said other than appeasing this thought process to gain mileage in pakistan for her films.

Good one,

we dont have slight difference we are way too different than indians plz correct your statement.Im a Pakistani and my whoel family is full of beautiful gils n handsome guys..our families are from sindh and punjab,PAKISTAN.we dont have any resemblence with indiands at all..rather few of our family members look like foreigners with whitish skin tome n colord eyes...my ffiends are way too different from indian looks..our dressing is quite different...but people also wear kurta pajamas ,saris as well..but still u can see a great difference.girls wear western out fits as well as pakistani dresses.its not us who talk in racist manner.. if u see indian sites mostly u will see the indians who talk in such an arrogant tone and exaggerate alot...first look at yourself than talk about us.

i don't think there should be any censorship in saying she would most certainly have been abducted by now considering 150 minority girls are abducted daily in pakistan

Kareena has always been like this. Very different and extremely adorable. What a positive soul she is!

before 1947 they were same,all our actors or their ancestors came from peshawar or punjab..

yes - I am a Pakistani and my parents are from AMBALA. They migrated to Pak Punjab and settled in Lahore. There are Millions of people like them (and myself). When I see Indians from the same region - I see 99% resemblance in everything i.e. Language, Dress (with minor change - over 65 years of Gap), etc) but essentially we are SAME People (most of North Indians and Eastern Pakistan)

Kareen's immediate relatives were from Peshawar. There is always that affinity to a place where your ancestors came from. I was born in united India and I certailnly have feeling for India. Generally most Indians-Pakistanis look the same, except in some special cases so what she said is not a big deal.

Peshawar was part of Afghanistan not India, it was the Durand Line that made it part of British Raj. Technically she is of Afghan-Hindu descent. If white skin and colored eyes are the barometer that measures beauty, these features are prevalent throughout Afghanistan.

well i know there is a human right issue in Pak but i guess u r exageerating. can you tell me how many parents abort their unborn daughters in india daily? and how many are buried alive?

You are right that Pakistani and Indian girls look different, but, what do u mean by stop dreaming? No body in India or in the world wants to look like a Pakistani.

"I can pass off as a Pakistani: Kareena Kapoor" - what a girl. Pakistanis just look slightly different to an average Indian because they have been inbreeding for a good few hundreds of years now. Otherwise Pakistanis are as we know, are just one of the Indians LOL.

And yet indians end up copying hollywood movies. almost all of them....lols. look who is talking

Kareena's comment can be taken as a step towardsreducing the tensions and hatred (perpetuated by hate-mongers on both sides of the border) between India & Pakistan. After all there are ordinary human beings living in both countries with unmet basic needs.

And look who is dying to watch these copied movies in Pakistan

well said Jam, but it just time passing news

Only India being ten times bigger than Pakistan has issues ten times bigger

we would love to see them. Where are they. Please post their picture.

very true..Pakistanis are very beautiful even if u see pakistani men they r way too handsome,as pakistani presidant ayyub khan was famous for his handsome n charming personality..we have so many beauties that we cant even count them on fingers..where as indians have have only few people to tell as good looking they rather exaggerate about there people..my friends have visitd many cioties of india and other people who visited india they are clear in pone thing that PAKISTANI PEOPLE ARE WAT TOO BEAUTIFULL THAN INDIANS...PAKISTANI BEAUTY HAS NO COMPARISON With india..PAKISTANIS ARE AHEAD OF them in beauty n talent both,they just dont get that projection what it actually deserve.. any foriengner who comes to pakistan after visiting india they say pakistan is alot much better and people are very different..but the indians have that thing in their minds that pakistanis are same like indians..cuz they still feel the pain of 1947..THATS IT.

Being brown is great but there is such emphasis on gora. Most songs emphasize 'mera gora badan', so what she is innocently admitting her gora badan. She is admitting that Pakistani women are fairer, whether Pakistanis are liked abroad or not is not the issue. I asked an indian Rajput friend and he said that Pakistani women are fairer because they eat meat. That may not be true but her whole statement was innocent. We ALL look the same, some brown, some fair and in between. Brown is beautiful, I agree.

Allah has made both Pakistanis and indians. It is true that we are fair and indians are not. But respect is counted in terms of character not colour.

whatever you say,its evidant taht you indians cant bear pakistani beauty,u dont have aesthetic sense as well.

I agree..Pakistanis are by far the better looking people in the subcontinent...Only an ignorant person would challenge this remark...I do admit on many occasions you cant tell the difference but i speak of most cases

Stop this foolish arrogance of 'we are better than you'. I am an Indian and know how much rubbish you are talking. There are good and bad people on both the sides. Don't go by stereotypes.

rightly said

And Indians have no better occupation but to post offensive comments on Dawn. It says it all...........

there's always some 1 who has to bring in the race card.

What a useless argument.People stop wasting your time and get some life.There are other important things in the life to discuss and worry about.Kareena is a talented actress and we all are proud of her.

How could you say one is fair and the other is not. Biased thought will be on both sides of the border

common guys grow up (both ind and paki)

yes, we came out of darkness. there is no shame in that.

Dawn takes pride in being associated with Indians- but Indians do not care. She might have said that to make Paksitanis feel better. The fact is that her ancesters left Pakistan in 1947.

ask the world who is much better off

and this is the headline news of Dawn, give a break

Gone are the days when India wanted akand Bharat. As Indian economy grows, most Indians are fearful of Illegal immigration from Bangladesh and to a much lesser extent Pakistan. A good example: How many times have we heard that India made any statements about getting Azad Kashmir (or Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) from Pakistan. Nobody wants it any more for the problems it would bring

Many whoever visited Dawn.. some says they are Turks, some say they are Arabs some say they are Aryan race some says they are Kurdish....... But according to my knowledge 80 % of Pakistani have Indo Aryan Race But you people never try to accept it.. You are converted to Islam from Hinduism... Accept it.....

Really? Just read the comments by Pakistanis here. You would know who is biased against who?

Kareena you have not tasted the essence of pakistan - once you taste the essence like the minorities in pakistan, you will have a different view.

completely agree with you;she doesn't have the wicked beauty that lies in pakistani girls' eyes

Off course not. We don't look like pakistani girls at all. You can tell the difference between Indian and Pakistani girls very easily in any school. Indian girls are more confident, better GPA, they go to better universities and get better jobs/salary. If you only care about looks than Indian girls Miss World and Miss Universe titles says it all.

HAAA Haaa.. I know the difference too.. we do not need to compare our self to you people... People of Pakistan origin have no respect in western world.. and we all Indian are same whether they are from NORTH SOUTH EAST AND WEST of India our Color is Brown.. and we feel proud of being brown and still we are better than you people... And if she is talking about her Pakistani origin than she is promoting herself and her up coming movie in Pakistan..

Not so sweeeeeet...its just a tactic to promote herself in Pakistan.innocent PAKISTANIS LOLZ...but she also realizes Pakistani beauty...:P