The Afridi “Kind of Heart”
Shahid Afridi seemed to have taken the semi-final loss to India as well as a guy could under the circumstances. But then once he reached home, he started shooting his mouth off. Apparently, he doesn’t know that we live in the Internet age where news travels at warp speed. The genius thought that what he said here wouldn’t reach there and vice-versa! First he said, “If I speak truthfully, they (Indians) just can’t have the kind of heart a Muslim has or a Pakistani has”. If you look at that statement closely, he’s right. After all, we Indians don’t have the “kind of heart” which asks us to butcher 166 people in a country we’ve never been to. Not so for Afridi’s role model, Ajmal Kasab. He also said, “It is a very difficult thing for us to be together or to have a long-term relationship.” So Afridi, I guess we should all forget 26/11 and the terrorism that people with your “kind of heart” practice? Later, Afridi whined that “I think the value given to cricketers there is greater than what...