“We will first capture Kashmir and then invade India from all sides for Ghazwa-e-Hind”: Pak Pacer Shoaib Akhtar
Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar is among the few saner voices and pacifists that have called for a lasting peace between the two countries.
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“We will first capture Kashmir and then invade India from all sides for Ghazwa-e-Hind”: Pak Pacer Shoaib Akhtar
For many Indians, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar is among the few saner voices and pacifists that have called for a lasting peace between the two countries. Akhtar’s effusive views on the Indian cricket team has only served to cement his personality as someone who is willing to shed the decades-long antagonism between the two neighbours and proceed on the path of peaceful coexistence. Akhtar, who was popularly called The Rawalpindi Express , was also feted by the Indian media after he raised discrimination meted out to Danish Kaneria , a Pakistani Hindu cricketer, by the rest of the Pakistani cricket team on account of his religion. The cricketer had recently invoked humanity over religion and country while appealing to India to provide ventilators to Pakistan in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. However, cynics within the Indian society have cautioned that Shoaib Akhtar’s charm offensive for the Indian cricket team and the country at large is just a smokescreen, a ruse intended to…
