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British-Pakistani pop sensation Zayn Malik came under unexpected attack on Twitter yesterday, when fellow artiste Azealia Banks hurled a whole bunch of racial slurs at him.

Azealia had accused Zayn of copying her style in his latest video 'Like I Would' and unleashed the slurs after he apparently responded to her with a nonchalant "My @'s [Twitter mentions] are too good for you," reports Daily Mail.

Azealia subsequently deleted her tweets, but a quick-thinking Twitter user luckily grabbed screenshots:

There's more. She also dropped this rather uninventive insult...

And it spawned a hashtag on Twitter!

Zayn's fans and desis in general rallied together to shut Azealia down:

Desi social media celebs also responded:

It prompted comedian Jasmeet Singh to actually change his Twitter name to Dirty Punjab:

Azaelia did try to 'explain':

But it's too late as a UK festival already dropped her from its line-up:

Because here's the thing:

Good thing she didn't say anything about biryani, because then the desis would break the Internet!