Dilip Kumar\\\'s Pakistan home a heritage site

Media in India are praising Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to declare legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar's ancestral home as a national heritage site. Yusuf Khan, who later became popular as Dilip Kumar, was born in Peshawar in now what is Pakistan. The actor's family relocated to Mumbai in the late 1930s where he eventually took up acting as a profession. ‘The family relocated to Mumbai in 1930s and in the early 1940s Yusuf Khan moved to Pune and started off with his canteen business and supplying dry fruits. He made his film debut in 1944.’Sharif has instructed authorities to acquire 91-year-old Kumar's home in Peshawar's Qisa Khawani Bazaar, which is presently in a shabby condition, and convert it into a museum, reports say. Most newspapers see Sharif's decision as a goodwill gesture as a follow up to his recent India visit for the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ‘Mr Sharif believes the project would play an important role to bring people of Pakistan and India closer,’ a report in The Indian Exoress says. The Pakistan government is expected to invite Kumar for the inauguration ceremony. In 1998, Pakistan had honoured Kumar with the title of Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the country's highest civilian award, according to BBC.