{"id":8560,"date":"2008-01-09T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/09\/un-sweetheart-role-for-brit-asian-actress\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T14:41:15","slug":"un-sweetheart-role-for-brit-asian-actress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/09\/un-sweetheart-role-for-brit-asian-actress\/","title":{"rendered":"UN \u2018Sweetheart\u2019 role for Brit-Asian actress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Sofia Hayat brings cheers to UN troops in Cyprus<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"272\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SophiaHayat180x232(1).jpg\"\/>Brit-Bollywood star Sofia Hayat brought cheer to United Nations troops in Cyprus after she was selected to be their New Year Sweetheart.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The aspiring actress was flown out to Cyprus last week as an official guest of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus after she was overwhelmingly voted \u2018New Year Sweetheart\u2019 by Gurkha soldiers serving in the country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>During the hectic tour of the island Sofia cooked meals for the UN personnel and spent most of her time lifting the spirits of the soldiers who did not go home for Christmas.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Gurkhas honoured Sofia with a Kukri Dance \u2013a sacred ceremony performed for high-ranking dignitaries and for people who have done service to the Gurkhas. In return the Gurkhas were treated to an all singing and dancing show performed by Sofia. The soldiers were also treated to sneak-previews of Sofia\u2019s new films, \u2018Unforgettable\u2019 and \u2018Cash And Curry\u2019 which are both scheduled to be released this year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Commenting on her visit, Sofia said as a Muslim woman it was important to show her support to the work of the United Nations. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWith the events happening around the world involving the war against terror it was very important to me as a Muslim woman to show that I believe in the peace-keeping role of the United Nations,\u201d she said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe United Nations and soldiers involved in peace-keeping around the world need to know that there are many Muslims like me who support their effort to bring peace to this planet. The UN\u2019s role is nothing to do with religion, whether you are Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Christian or Jew you must support them.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/PhotoGallery.aspx?articleID=701\">Click here to see more pictures of Sofia\u2019s visit<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Hayat brings cheers to UN troops in Cyprus Brit-Bollywood star Sofia Hayat brought cheer to United Nations troops in Cyprus after she was selected to be their New Year Sweetheart. &#13; The aspiring actress was flown out to Cyprus last week as an official guest of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}