PTI 

Islamabad, May 18: Upset over his reported remarks criticising Pakistan during his recent visit, President Pervez Musharraf has banned veteran Bollywood actor Feroze Khan from entering the country.

"He (Khan) has misbehaved, abused our hospitality which was not acceptable, therefore he is barred from entering Pakistan," Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam told PTI from Islamabad on Thursday.

"The President House has taken serious notice of his remarks which were widely covered in the Indian and Pakistani media and directed the concerned authorities to blacklist him and impose a ban on his entry into Pakistan," private ARY channel reported quoting sources in the Presidency.

It said the President's decision has been communicated to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi.

The 67-year-old actor, during his visit to Pakistan last month for the premiere of his brother Akbar Khan's film 'Taj Mahal', had reportedly made the comments in Lahore on April 26 highlighting comfort levels of Muslims in India in comparison to that in Pakistan, setting off a heated verbal exchange between him and local compere Fakher-e-Alam, and triggering a controversy.

"I am a proud Indian. India is a secular country. Muslims there are making a lot of progress. Our President is a Muslim, Prime Minister a Sikh. Pakistan was made in the name of Islam, but look how the Muslims are killing each other," he was quoted as saying by a Pakistani daily last month.