Zainab Abbas: Pakistan reporter who left India for Safety, not forced to Leave !

[Hero786]

A Pakistani cricket commentator who abruptly left India earlier this week has denied that she was asked to leave the country.

Zainab Abbas, who was covering the Cricket World Cup, left on Monday after a backlash over her old social media posts that allegedly mocked India and the Hindu religion.

Abbas said she felt "intimidated and scared" by the online reactions.

She also apologised to people who were offended by the posts.

"I understand and deeply regret the hurt caused by the posts that were circulated. I wish to make clear that they do not represent my values or who I am as a person today," Abbas said in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter).

Abbas was part of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) digital team covering the ongoing World Cup matches. She arrived in India last week and had reported on Pakistan's World Cup opener against the Netherlands. She was due to attend her country's other matches in Bengaluru, Chennai and Ahmedabad. Pakistan will play India in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

Relations between the two countries are tense - the neighbours have fought three wars since they became independent nations in 1947.

Abbas faced criticism from Indian social media users after a lawyer in capital Delhi lodged a police complaint against her last week over her old posts.

Advocate Vineet Jindal's complaint alleged that Abbas had an unofficial account on X (formerly Twitter) from which she had posted "derogatory and provocative posts" about India and the Hindu religion. These posts are no longer available on X, but screenshots went viral.

Mr Jindal also cited a tweet from Abbas's current X account in which she wrote about Kashmir's right to self-determination. The Himalayan region is divided between India and Pakistan and both claim it in full.
The lawyer also wrote a letter to a top official in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the governing body of Indian cricket, seeking Abbas's removal as an ICC presenter.

In her statement, Abbas said that even though there was no "immediate threat to her safety", her family and friends from both India and Pakistan were concerned and that she also felt that she needed some "space and time to reflect on what had happened".

After her departure from India, there was speculation that she had been forced to leave. But an ICC spokesperson had told the BBC that she had left for personal reasons.

Zainab Abbas: Pakistan reporter who left India sorry for old posts

Zainab Abbas says she left because she was scared by a backlash over her old social media posts.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1712504313376104800

"I was neither asked to leave nor was I deported," she further added in the statement.


Posts from unverified X account, formerly Twitter, had gone viral after she announced that she would be covering the ICC mega event in India.

FO condemns unwarranted case against Zainab Abbas in India​

FO condemns unwarranted case against Zainab Abbas in India | The Express Tribune

Baloch reminds India its responsibility to provide favourable environment to Pakistani team as host country for WC

tribune.com.pk

 

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

According to ary bcci might let her back in , i mean waqar younis is out here commentating he apologized for his remarks so anything is possible

 

[Areesh]

Happy for Zainab who is now out of India safe and sound

Thoughts and prayers with women who are still in India

 

[Maula Jatt]

I mean no surprises there

she was in a genuinely life threatening situation as India is known for its radicalized looney lynch mobs killing random people
What chance does a Pakistani lady stand in India?

Career is one thing but when you have a family, it's important to take responsible decisions
And I am glad she took a responsible decision

 

[DabbuSardar]

She also apologised to people who were offended by the posts

That's nice of her, she made a mistake and apologized for it.

Live and let live..

 

[Hero786]

That's nice of her, she made a mistake and apologized for it.

Live and let live..

But Your media is saying tweets were from un-verified account. (Probably Fake Account)

But she still apologized.

 

[White privilege]

I mean no surprises there

she was in a genuinely life threatening situation as India is known for its radicalized looney lynch mobs killing random people
What chance does a Pakistani lady stand in India?

Career is one thing but when you have a family, it's important to take responsible decisions
And I am glad she took a responsible decision

Correct. She had been marked, so she would have been chased and jeered, may be even physically harassed everywhere she went. All this preplanned operation would be conveniently blamed on 'sentiments of crowd'. So she recognized the pitfall and left. Also, 'friends and family feared for safety' means simply they had been unofficially told what could happen, and so they advised her accordingly.

Also, don't take her 'official statement' seriously. It just means, "I was scared of the RSS mobbing me, every contract has loopholes that can user to fire people at will, and I want to keep working with ICC so India cannot be offended, so I apologized, peace out".

 

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

But Your media is saying tweets were from un-verified account. (Probably Fake Account)

But she still apologized.

nope it was her real account,or she would not have come out and apologized


Even Babar Azam Warned Zainab Abbas 5 years Ago.