A Pakistani national Sultan Zareen has reportedly urged the Indian Government to release, on humanitarian grounds, his “innocent” son Nasir Sultan, who according to him crossed over to India to realise his Bollywood dream and become an actor.

Said to be a diehard fan of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, Nasir is currently lodged in the Juvenile Home at Faridkot. He was arrested by the BSF after he entered India from Pakistan illegally in mid-August this year.

The News International, a Pakistan newspaper, quoted Nasir’s father, who works at a petrol pump in the remote Chitral district, as saying that the boy called up home on August 18 and said he had crossed into India. “Just 15 minutes after the first phone call, the boy called again to say the Indian police had arrested him,” said the news report. A senior BSF official confirmed that a 15-year-old Pakistani boy was arrested by the force in August. “He had said that he wanted to meet Shah Rukh Khan and that was why he had come to India.

In May, another Pakistani teenager Sunil Quereshi had crossed over to India illegally and during interrogation said that he wanted to go to Mumbai, said GRP DSP H S Brar.