Shame on you! Miandad lashes out at Afridi for India love
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/icc-world-t20-2016/top-stories/Shame-on-you-Miandad-lashes-out-at-Afridi-for-India-love/articleshow/51393643.cmsMr Dawood, my dad-in-law
Piyali Dasgupta | TNN | Jun 30, 2005, 09.43 PM ISTKARACHI: "Shocked and hurt" by Shahid Afridi's comments that Pakistan's cricketers were loved more by Indians than the fans here, former captain Javed Miandad has said that players making such statements should be "ashamed" of themselves.
"These cricketers should be ashamed of themselves for saying such a thing. Shame on you," Miandad said on the 'Aaj TV' channel.
Afridi and senior player Shoaib Malik had praised India after landing there for the World Twenty20, insisting that they have never felt threatened in the country even though their departure was delayed due to security concerns.
"We have always enjoyed playing in India and have been loved by Indian crowds more than crowds back home in Pakistan," Afridi had said.
Miandad said Pakistan had gone to India to play in the World T20 but it didn't mean that the players should pander to the hosts.
"What have the Indians given us? Speak the truth even while in India. For the last five years what have they given us or done with Pakistan cricket. Having served Pakistan cricket for so many years I am shocked and hurt to hear such comments from our players," Miandad said.
More loved in India than in Pakistan: Shahid Afridi
Amitava Das Gupta | TNN | Mar 14, 2016, 08.33 AM ISTKOLKATA: The eternal tug-of-war that always accompanies a Pakistan cricket team's arrival in India may have led to Shahid Afridi and Co landing for the World T20 three days behind schedule, but their senior pros were far from complaining. Instead Afridi and Shoaib Malik did well to quickly win hearts by deflecting the focus from the sticky political issues during Pakistan's first media interaction here on Sunday.
"Let me say that we are more loved here than in Pakistan. Crick et brings the two countries closer, so there's nothing like playing cricket with India." Skipper Afridi led from the front, when he typically spoke his mind.
"We are not politicians," he said, when asked if the team disagreed with the Pakistan government's grave concern about security of the players in India, "We are cricketers and will go by the decision of the state," Afridi said. "But as cricketers, we love playing in India because of the love we get here."
Malik, a former captain who in fact led Pakistan in a Test match at Eden Gardens eight years ago, offered his bit as well. "My wife (Sania Mirza) is from India and I visit the country a lot. I've got a lot of love in India... It's an honour to be in India," he said.
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HE IS JUSTIFYING TOLERANCE ON INDIAN PEOOLE AND ITS A SLAP ON FACE OF SHARUKH KHAN AND AMIR KHANMalik said the security provided to the team was very good. "I have never faced any security issue in India," he emphasised, but quickly donned a more diplomatic role when he said he saw no difference between Pakistanis and Indians. "We eat the same food, speak the same language... I don't really see any difference."
On the last leg of a chequered career, Afridi couldn't stop gushing on his memorable India experience. "I am in the last stage of my long career and let me tell you that I've not enjoyed playing anywhere as much as I have in India. This experience is something that I will always remember," said an emotional Afridi, who will retire at the end of the World T20 meet.
Miandad son is married to Dawood Ibrahim's Daughter -No Hesitation
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Former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad says he never hesitated about marrying his son to the daughter of Dawood Ibrahim, designated a global terrorist by the US and UN.
"No, never. I never thought on those lines. I was only thinking of the children and their happiness," Miandad said in his first interview since the marriage to the Tehelka weekly newspaper.
In a recorded, telephone interview, Miandad said: "Why blame the girl, that is my point. Even you people (Indians) leave things to kismet (fate)."
Pressed about how he felt getting his son married to the daughter of a wanted terrorist, Miandad said: "I am not concerned about Dawood or who he is. I am only interested in the happiness of our children. They should be happy with Allah's blessings. That is all.
"What I have done? What have the children done? Just because she is someone's daughter, will you say, 'woh us ki aulaad hai, mar jai saali ... aisa kabhi hua hai (Will you condemn the girl just for being someone's daughter? Has that ever happened)?"
Ibrahim is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 260 people - as also other crimes like extortion and money laundering.
Miandad's son Junaid married Ibrahim's daughter Mahrukh at a ceremony July 23 at Dubai's Grand Hyatt Hotel. A reception for the couple was organised Aug 4 in Karachi. Ibrahim was conspicuous by his absence at both events.
Miandad indicated he was upset with the Indian media's coverage of the wedding, saying: "Young kids aged 21 and 22 are getting married. Spare them at least when their marriage is being solemnised.
"In Islam, it is said that marriages are made in heaven...It is destined the day the child is born. All Muslims believe that it is decided up there in the sky... But look at what the Indian media did."
Miandad said Ibrahim, India's most wanted man, is a "distant relation" of his wife.
"My wife is known to their family, they are distant relatives. Where have we come from? My grandparents were from India only, my relations are all in India, our relations are in India. My father belongs to India, my mother belongs to India but the circumstances took a different turn, meetings subsided and it all changed. I still have my uncle, I still have all my relations (in India), we don't have any relatives here."
Miandad's comments, in which he was cagey and circumspect about Ibrahim, came in a telephone interview conducted over the weekend that will be carried in the Aug 11 issue of Tehelka.
Asked when and how he had met Ibrahim, Miandad said: "You see, when and how I met him, I don't want to talk about. I don't want to talk about Dawood or anybody, right?
"I am concerned about myself and my family, that is it. What have I done? What have the children done?"
Miandad confessed that he had asked his Indian friends not to attend the wedding.
"There was so much build up, in fact we had to tell people not to come. I don't want anyone getting into trouble because of me. My friends have sent me SMSs, they have sent me their good wishes.
"We understand there were compulsions...It is over, finished. The match is over and the wickets have been removed from the field."
Asked about reports that the wedding was solemnized in Makkah, Miandad said: "Nobody knows anything but still every one is writing, write it, how can I stop it, why should I deny or why should I confirm? It has nothing to do with me, it's better to shut one's ears and eyes to all that."
"No, never. I never thought on those lines. I was only thinking of the children and their happiness," Miandad said in his first interview since the marriage to the Tehelka weekly newspaper.
In a recorded, telephone interview, Miandad said: "Why blame the girl, that is my point. Even you people (Indians) leave things to kismet (fate)."
Pressed about how he felt getting his son married to the daughter of a wanted terrorist, Miandad said: "I am not concerned about Dawood or who he is. I am only interested in the happiness of our children. They should be happy with Allah's blessings. That is all.
"What I have done? What have the children done? Just because she is someone's daughter, will you say, 'woh us ki aulaad hai, mar jai saali ... aisa kabhi hua hai (Will you condemn the girl just for being someone's daughter? Has that ever happened)?"
Ibrahim is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 260 people - as also other crimes like extortion and money laundering.
Miandad's son Junaid married Ibrahim's daughter Mahrukh at a ceremony July 23 at Dubai's Grand Hyatt Hotel. A reception for the couple was organised Aug 4 in Karachi. Ibrahim was conspicuous by his absence at both events.
Miandad indicated he was upset with the Indian media's coverage of the wedding, saying: "Young kids aged 21 and 22 are getting married. Spare them at least when their marriage is being solemnised.
"In Islam, it is said that marriages are made in heaven...It is destined the day the child is born. All Muslims believe that it is decided up there in the sky... But look at what the Indian media did."
Miandad said Ibrahim, India's most wanted man, is a "distant relation" of his wife.
"My wife is known to their family, they are distant relatives. Where have we come from? My grandparents were from India only, my relations are all in India, our relations are in India. My father belongs to India, my mother belongs to India but the circumstances took a different turn, meetings subsided and it all changed. I still have my uncle, I still have all my relations (in India), we don't have any relatives here."
Miandad's comments, in which he was cagey and circumspect about Ibrahim, came in a telephone interview conducted over the weekend that will be carried in the Aug 11 issue of Tehelka.
Asked when and how he had met Ibrahim, Miandad said: "You see, when and how I met him, I don't want to talk about. I don't want to talk about Dawood or anybody, right?
"I am concerned about myself and my family, that is it. What have I done? What have the children done?"
Miandad confessed that he had asked his Indian friends not to attend the wedding.
"There was so much build up, in fact we had to tell people not to come. I don't want anyone getting into trouble because of me. My friends have sent me SMSs, they have sent me their good wishes.
"We understand there were compulsions...It is over, finished. The match is over and the wickets have been removed from the field."
Asked about reports that the wedding was solemnized in Makkah, Miandad said: "Nobody knows anything but still every one is writing, write it, how can I stop it, why should I deny or why should I confirm? It has nothing to do with me, it's better to shut one's ears and eyes to all that."
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