Shahid Afridi Soon To Visit LoC, Backs Pak PM Imran Khan's 'Kashmir hour'

Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad had also said that he will visit the LoC with other sportspersons from the nation

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi will soon be visiting the Line of Control (LoC)brethren" following India's decision to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcate the state into two union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, he said on Wednesday. Afridi took to his official Twitter account and informed that he would be at Mazar-e-Quaid (the tomb of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah) in Karachi at 12 noon on Friday. Here’s the tweet: 

Let’s respond to PM call for Kashmir Hour as a nation. I will be at Mazar e Quaid at 12 pm on Friday. Join me to express solidarity with our Kashmiri brethren. On 6 Sep I will visit home of a Shaheed. I will soon be visiting LOC.

— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) August 28, 2019

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced that a 30-minute event will take place every week in his country to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people. Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad had also said that he will visit the LoC with other sportspersons from the nation who were willing to join him. The former cricketer said that they will hoist a flag for peace at the LoC. “I will go to the border for peace. I will call all the top people, the sportspeople and everyone. I will go there and tell everyone about peace. I will go with a peace flag. If these things did not stop then I will go to the border with anyone who will join me and after going there I will tell people that we want peace and we are with Kashmiri people,” Miandad said in a video posted on his Twitter handle.