Peace Cricket Match Peshawar !

[Amolthebest]

Any chances of revival of international cricket on Pakistani soil? Please update

 

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T20 match gets Peshawar on its feet !

 

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the girls are hiding their faces, oh come on beautiful people !!

 

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These sort of events shows atmosphere of some sort of normalcy in this troubled area

 

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Shoaibiiiiiiiiiiii !!

 

[Leader]

I witnessed a wonderful cricket Peace Match in Peshawar today. It was great to see such a huge crowd at a sports event in this city after so many years. I have announced an Under-17 talent hunt scheme in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa & FATA plus a sports ground in every tehsil of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa.

Imran Khan

 

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Imran Khan attends peace cricket match as chief guest


The PTI sports and culture wing, which organised the match, had already hinted that Imran might be seen on the cricket field for the first time since his retirement in 1992.


Peshawar: The who's who of Pakistan cricket turned out for a peace match organised by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) in the city on Sunday with former captain and the PTI founder, Imran Khan making his presence at the jam packed stadium as the chief guest.

The PTI sports and culture wing, which organised the match, had already hinted that Imran might be seen on the cricket field for the first time since his retirement in 1992.

Imran watched the match from the enclosure as thousands of spectators danced and enjoyed themselves watching their favourite stars in action.

"It is a great day for Peshawar and the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Province (KPP) as thousands of people have turned out today to watch this spectacle despite the ongoing wave of terrorism in the country and province," a senior official of the party said.

KPP, which is ruled by Imran's PTI party has been the worst hit by terrorist attacks in the last few years as it borders the tribal agencies and war torn Afghanistan, which are the hotbed of the Tehreek e Taliban and al Qaeda.

"The idea to have a series of peace matches was by Imran himself who wants the world to see that the people of this place are peace loving and want to live a normal life," Ifthikar Mian of the PTI sports and culture wing said.

The star of the match was the flamboyant allrounder, Shahid Afridi who cracked a blistering 66 from just 19 balls to lead the Pakistan Peace XI to a comfortable win against the KP Peace XI.

Even Pakistan's former captain Salim Malik, who is serving a life ban for match fixing, turned out for the match and showed his deft touch with a classical 51 runs.

Imran, on the occasion, promised that his government would build stadia in the province and he would take personal interest to see the province players of the calibre of Shoaib Akhtar and Shahid Afridi.

With Imran being behind organising the match, all the top former players showed up for the T20 game including Inzamam ul Haq, Imran Nazir, Muhammad Yousuf, Abdul Razaq, Khalid Latif, Sohail Tanvir, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shoaib Akhtar, Akram Raza,Ashraf Ali, Rameez Raja, Taufeeq Ahmad and Aamir Sohail

The Pakistan Peace eleven included Shahid Afridi, Yasir Hameed, Ijaz Ahmad, Salim Malik, Kamran Akmal, Abdul Qadir, Umar Gul, Shabbir Ahmad, Nasir Jamshed, Wajahat Ullah Wasti, Roa Iftikhar, Imran Farhat, Mohsin Kamal.



Imran Khan attends peace cricket match as chief guest | Cricket - News | NDTVSports.com

 

[saiyan0321]

Such events are a great moral booster and the people of Peshawar deserve some happiness. Its not easy to organize such an event and have our old legends play and have 25000 people come to the stadium. A leaders job is not only to develop a region but also to make that region happy and events like that fulfill such a purpose and politically its a good move to give something for people to enjoy during such attacks. What really grinds me is why wasnt this match telecasted.

Oh well Great work ( infact very great) and congrats on it being a success.

 

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=367367483398164

Anchor criticizing media for not covering this great event.

Dr. Farooq Sattar appreciating Imran Khan's efforts to organize peace match

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Only biscuits and water bottle....
No chicken Broast, Mutton ginger , chicken biryani, Haleem, Kofta, Seekh Kabab................................

 

[saiyan0321]

This is what gets me. Why wasnt it telecasted. Media is out with claws if God forbid a bomb blasts happened or some guy comes out and shoots five people but not when 25000 people are gathered together happy and cheering for an event gone right in a targeted area. I guess it just that the best news is negative news as it brings more ratings. This really should have been televised with interviews from players. A very bad move by our media.