Shahid Afridi's interview to dawn creating furore in India

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Re: Shahid Afridi’s interview to dawn creating furore in India

@kaheekanahee

This interview has created controvery back in India as well as cricketing world -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFfgky3unE

This is what dawn says - http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/28/afridi-accuses-indian-media-of-negative-campaign.html

KARACHI: Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi accused the Indian media on Monday of conducting a negative campaign against his team before Wednesday’s eagerly anticpated World Cup semi-final in Mohali.

“There is so much negativity in the Indian media. There is nothing positive to watch on the channels and we are just sticking together as a team and it is just the hotel and ground for us,” Afridi told a Pakistani news channel.

“The only answer we can give is with our performance. We will try to give 110 per cent in this big match.

“Everyone knows how big a match this is and the pressures that come with it. But we will just do our best whatever the result. After the match we just want to be content in our hearts we gave our best.”

This is what rediff says - Indians don't have large, clean hearts: Afridi - Rediff Cricket

Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi Images ] has stirred controversy again by saying that he did not find any of the Indian cricketers having large or clean hearts.

Speaking days after losing to India Images ] in the World Cup semi-final in Mohali, Afridi said: “In my opinion, if I have to tell the truth, they (Indians) will never have hearts like Muslims and Pakistanis.”

“I don’t think they have the large and clean hearts that Allah has given us,” he added.

Afridi, who was participating in a talk show on Samaa news channel, said: “It is a very difficult thing for us to live with them (Indians) or to have long-term relationship with them. Nothing will come out of talks. See how many times in the past 60 years we have had friendship and then how many times things have gone bad.”

I wonder if Afridi meant it or just media pressure. But not good for the future of cricket between two countries. Media is bad everywhere and indian media is particularly worse but the lady in this video too is just too much. Putting words in afridi’s mouth.

But you missed the most important para (from rediff).

**“The Indian media has a very negative approach and very negative thoughts. The people may not be like that but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India. Our media, which is criticised by people, is hundred times better than theirs,” **

Rediff is also trying to make mattters worse by distorting facts (that is indian media for you). I also watched the interview and at no stage did Afridi mention indian cricketers. His criticism was directed mainly at the indian media which is negative and very Pak-centric and obsessed for sure, almost childish and immature at times. Sure Afridi goofed up by saying musalman (use is objectionable in a cricket discussion), if he had said humaray, it would have been just fine