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Zaira Wasim is back on Twitter & Instagram, says 'I'm just a human like everyone else'

WION Web Team
New Delhi, IndiaUpdated: May 30, 2020, 09:36 PM IST
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Zaira is a teenage star from Kashmir who played the role of younger Geeta Phogat in recently released Bollywood movie Dangal. Photograph:(Facebook)

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Zaira Wasim was widely criticised by Twitter user's as they believed that her tweet was justified locust attack as the wrath of God.

A day after quitting social media, Zaira Waseem is back on the social site, The 'Dangal' actress who deleted her Instagram and Twitter after receiving a backlash for using a Quran verse to justify locust attack and floods in India.

The actor tweeted on Saturday evening and gave her explanation,'' Because I’m just a human, like everyone else, who’s allowed to take a break from everything whenever the noise inside my head or around me reaches it’s peak :)''.

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'Secret Superstar' actress went away from Twitter and Instagram after tweeting a verse from Quran: “So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood: Signs openly self-explained: but they were steeped in arrogance- a people gave to sin – Qur’an 7:133” (sic).

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Wasim was widely criticised by Twitter user's as they believed that her tweet was justified locust attack as the wrath of God.

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Zaira in 2019 had announced that she is leaving Bollywood after 5 years of working, she marks her debut in Bollywood from Amir Khan's blockbuster 'Dangal'.