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| Afridi Ko Gussa Kyon Aaya | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: One may not have to strain one's brain while trying to find out why Afridi, who led the Pakistan cricket team to the just completed world cup, lost his cool while giving vent to anger (Gussa) and disgust against the Indian team. Cool can be lost out of frustration and that is what may have been the reason behind Sahid Afridi's Gussa.
In a fit of anger he said "Indias are not as large hearted as the Pakistani." He seems to be correct because by his definition of large heartedness he may have expected the Indian team "to gift away the semi-final to Afridi's team." He did not stop there. He even described the Indian media's attitude "negative" in comparison to the media in Pakistan which he has found to "hundred times better."
"They (Indians) will never have hearts like Muslims and Pakistanis," he has thundered without realising that Zaheer Khan and Yousuf Pathan were the members of the winning Indian team. Thank God Afridi has not dubbed Zaheer Khan and Pathan as Hindu communalists. It was sheer frustration on his team's loss that he berated Gautam Gambhir for vowing to dedicate the victory in the world cup final to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Despite the fact that Gambhir had not said anything about Pakistan's involvement in the attack Afridi said that he "wasn't expecting this from Gautam, this is all politics."
Another step in the wrong direction when he, while referring to Gambhir, asked him "What do you know about who carried the Bombay attacks"? Whether Gambhir knew who carried or masterminded or engineered the attacks or not the establishment in Islamabad knows fully well about the brain behind the attacks otherwise it would have not taken seven people in custody.
Afridi's political spin seems to have negated whatever progress Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had achieved during his interaction with his counterpart, Yousuf Raza Gilani or the gains the bilateral dialogue between G.K. Pillai, Indian Home secretary, and Pakistan's home secretary, Qamar Zaman, in Delhi.
The captain of the cricket team, Shahid Afridi, was blunt and terribly candid when he said "it is very difficult to live with them (Indians) or have long-time relationship with them. "Despite the announcement made by Yousuf Raza Gilani that his talks with Manmohan singh ended on a positive note Afridi said "nothing will come out of talks. See how many times in the past 60 years we have had friendship and how many times things had gone bad."
Who has been responsible for things that have gone wrong? Only Pakistan which has been providing moral diplomatic and financial support to militants who indulge in sabotage and subersion in Jammu an Kashmir and in other states of India. Had not the Mumbai terror strike taken place the composite dialogue would have achieved some results by now. But the Mumbai mayhem forced India to choke the channels of dialogue in protest against Mumbai attacks.
Another precious pearl that dropped from Afridi's mouth is his claim that a third country, he has not named it, has been behind spoiling the relations between India and Pakistan. Here he has shown his diplomatic attitude.
Afridi seems to be irritated not only by Indian team's win against Pakistan but also over his dismay and disgust over India winning the world cup final by defeating Sri Lanka. When India defeat Pakistan in the World Cup semi-final Afridi felt wounded. But when he saw India winning the cup it was like rubbing his wounds with salt.
Afridi's outbursts against the Indians and the media in India seem to be a violation of the stand having been taken by the establishment in Islamabad. This establishment has been in favour of sustained talks with the establishment in New Delhi. It is hoped that New Delhi ignores Sahid Afridi's remarks and leave the job of hitting Afridi in his shins to Ghambir or to Dhoni or to Sachin or to Zaheer Khan.
If Afridi has been frustrated over the defeat of his team he should not indulge in cheap politics. He has lost the cup but he should not force Islamabad to lose its game of securing some concession during parleys with the powers that be in New Delhi. If he is not in a position to tolerate defeat he should quit cricket and join politics to strengthen anti-India forces in Pakistan. |
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