After announcing his retirement from all forms of Cricket, Pakistani fast-bowler Sohaib Akhtar joined the sports broadcasting industry. The left-arm fast bowler has worked in India as a broadcaster and believes that the people of India don’t want to commence a war against his home country. He also comments on Indian media’s ongoings sharing fabricated news of a potential war between the 2 subcontinent countries.
“India is a great place, the people are amazing. Never did I feel that they want any animosity or any type of war with Pakistan. But, when I went to their TVs etc. it feels as if war will happen tomorrow,” Akhtar said in a Pakistani chat show.
“I have travelled extensively across India, have seen the country very closely, I can say today, India is dying to work with Pakistan. India’s path of progress goes through Pakistan, I am convinced,” he added.
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Sohaib also went ahead and commented on the deadly spread of the CoronaVirus pandemic. Akhtar believes that India might incur heavy losses due to the widespread of Corona, affecting the major sporting events across the nation. Currently, More than 110 positive cases of coronavirus have been detected in India, Unfortunately two lives have also been lost in India due to the ill effects o the Convid-19 virus.
“I hope India do not incur this loss and I hope they prosper, but it is all happening which is unfortunate,” Akhtar said.
The Rawalpindi express had earlier bashed out Chinese nationals as the ones responsible for making the coronavirus infect humans and cause this outbreak.
“I don’t understand why you have to eat things like bats, drink their blood and urine and spread some virus across the globe…I’m talking about the Chinese people. They have put the world at stake. I really don’t understand how you can eat bats, dogs, and cats. I’m really angry,” Akhtar said on his Youtube channel.
Akhtar has also commented on the risk the world is in right now. He also acknowledged the hit, tourism industry has taken and the effect CoronaVirus spread has had on the global economy.
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“I’m not against the people of China but I’m against the law of animals. I understand this may be your culture but this is not benefitting you now, it is killing humanity. I’m not saying you boycott the Chinese but there has to be some law. You cannot go on and eat anything and everything,” he added.
Coronavirus originated in China and has affected more than 100 countries. The virus has infected more than 1,60,000 people and killed approx 6,000 citizens of the globe.
