India, Oct. 21 -- Actor Salman Khan has triggered a social media storm after referring to Balochistan and Pakistan separately while speaking about South Asian expatriate communities in the Middle East.

The remark came during the Joy Forum 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he appeared alongside fellow Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan.

"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."

The statement spa...