As military officials, political leaders and even artistes from both India and Pakistan vent their anger amid rising tension between the two countries, it is now the turn for former Pakistani cricket star Javed Miandad’s scathing rant.
“We are ready for war,” he said in response to the recent surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. In an interview to a Pakistani TV channel, Miandad lashed out at Prime Minster Narendra Modi, bizarrely describing him as “a rotten egg who doesn’t know about his father or mother”.
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Post retirement, Miandad must definitely miss the publicity and thus treated the interview as an opportunity to gain some much-needed attention.
I have travelled a lot in India during my cricketing days. I know that the general public is not like that. He (Modi) doesn’t know whom he is threatening. We are ready for martyrdom. Every Pakistani, even every child is ready to fight and die for this holy war. They (Indians) are cowards, they have no army, nothing.
The Miandad Roast
BCCI chief and BJP MP Anurag Thakur hit back at Miandad, saying he was still in a “state of shock for not being able to beat India even once in World Cup history ”.
If needed, India will make Pakistan bite the dust again, whether it is in the battle field or the cricket field.Anurag Thakur, BCCI Chief
“If Miandad is so confident about his own people, he should tell Dawood to
come back to India,” Thakur added, referring to underworld don and Miandad’s relative Dawood Ibrahim.
He also said that if the former captain was so sure of his people then he must ask his relative and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to return to India.
In sharp contrast to Miandad’s tirade, Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi had recently appealed for peace on both sides in a Twitter post. He called Pakistan a “peace-loving nation” and said that “things can be resolved through dialogue”.
Twitterati Hits Back
(With inputs from ScoopWhoop and PTI)
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