Early Times Report
Jammu, May 17: Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi, whose terrorist cousin was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kashmir, spitted venom against India while addressing a gathering in PoJK. Known for hitting back such comments, former Indian Left-hand opener and Lok Sabha member from Delhi, Gautam Gambhar called Afridi as “joker” “Pak has 7 lakh force backed by 20 Cr ppl says 16 yr old man @SAfridiOfficial. Yet begging for Kashmir for 70 yrs. Jokers like Afridi, Imran & Bajwa can spew venom against India & PM @narendramodi ji to fool Pak people but won't get Kashmir till judgment day! Remember Bangladesh?" said Gambhir in a tweet on Sunday. Both former cricketers have been engaged in a long running Afridi’s terrorist cousin killed in Kashmir
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 17: Shahid Afridi’s constant rant over Kashmir flows from his family’s connection with terrorism in the Valley. His cousin was shot dead by the security forces in 2003 in an encounter in Anantnag.
Identified as Shaquib, Shahid Afridi’s first cousin, was killed in an encounter with the BSF on September 7, 2003. The BSF had described Shaquib after the encounter as a battalion commander of the Harkat-ul-Ansar, which later took the name of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, another front of Jamaat-ud-Dawa of Hafiz Saeed, the designated global terrorist.
Documents recovered from Shaquib proved his connection with Shahid Afridi’s family, the BSF had then said. Shaquib hailed from Peshawar and had been operating in the Anantnag area for about a-year-and-half before he was killed.
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