Pakistan: Police arrest Moosewala's fan for hosting aerial shooting on singer's 1st death anniversary

Police release teenager after he issues written apology

ITDC INIDA EPRESS/ ITDC NEWS:  A 15-year-old fan of the slain Indian singer Sidhu Moosewala was briefly arrested in the Punjab province of Pakistan for inviting people via social media for an aerial firing on the Punjabi singer's first death anniversary, police said on Tuesday.

According to police, Sharjil Malik uploaded a poster of Moosewala on his Facebook wall, inviting people to attend the singer's first death anniversary event at his residence in Okara, some 130km from Lahore.

The poster invited people "...to remember the late Punjabi singer and aerial firing will be held in the manner he (Moosewala) used to do." Moosewala used to eulogise guns in his songs and music videos.

"A neighbour of Malik filed a complaint with the local police informing his plan of holding an event to commemorate Moosewala's first death anniversary with aerial firing at his residence on May 29," police officer Aslam Shahid said.