After Pulwama incident, India put a ban on Pakistani artistes from working in India. Soon after, Indian music giant T-Series also removed Pakistani singers' songs, including Atif Aslam’s recent releases, from their YouTube channel, but later on restored them on popular demand.

Atif has now broken silence about the controversial move by T-Series and the entire matter. Speaking about the controversy and his songs getting restored despite Indian government's ban on Pakistani artists, Atif has said it can be because of his Indian fans that T-Series had to restore his songs.

Indian music record label reportedly lost over a million subscribers after they removed Atif’s new song 'Baarishein' from their YouTube channel.

“It happens, I don’t know. I think I’m really loved over there [India] by fans. Border-ban has appeared often but I personally don’t know the reason for this – why I was taken off and was back on YouTube. The fan following in Pakistan and India is huge, which is perhaps gauged by the numbers. I feel it is the response of the fan,” Atif told local tabloid Weekly Blitz.

Mwanwhile, With the ban still in place in India, makers of actor Ajay Devgan’s upcoming Bollywood flick ‘De De Pyar De’ removed Atif’s song from the film few days ago.