Social media is awash with a video where a TV9 Marathi journalist is seen interviewing Advocate Indrapal Singh after a special PMLA court on Friday sent his client, former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, to further ED custody till November 15. Deshmukh was arrested on November 1 in a money laundering case.
In the video that is attracting criticism from Marathi viewers, the journalist could be seen asking the lawyer why the ED is bent on getting Deshmukh’s custody extended even though he is fully cooperating with the investigative agency and is not keeping good health in judicial custody.
“The ED had already sought the custody of Anil Deshmukh earlier this month. What is the need for extension of his custody even though we have been told that his health is deteriorating inside the prison. We are told he has extended his full cooperation to ED in their probe, then what’s the need for this extension of his custody?” the journalist asks Deshmukh’s lawyer.
Singh, however, corrects the journalist, saying Deshmukh is in good spirits and that he has himself accompanied the former Maharashtra Home Minister in hours-long interrogation where he appeared energetic and in good health.
“Mr Deshmukh is absolutely fine. He is in good spirits and quite energetic during his interrogation with the probe agencies. I have myself attended those examinations with him,” Singh clarifies.
The lawyer also spoke on why the Enforcement Directorate keeps seeking extension of the custody of suspects. “It is how Enforcement Directorate operates. It is their routine procedure. Their scope of investigation is broad, so they keep asking for the extension of custody until they are satisfied with the thoroughness of their probe,” Singh said.
PMLA court extends ED custody of Anil Deshmukh till November 15
Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody has been extended to November 15 by a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court. Mr. Deshmukh has been in ED custody since November 2 after being questioned for 12 hours on charges of money laundering and corruption.
On October 29, the Bombay High Court rejected his plea seeking to quash five summons issued by the ED.
The case pertains to the letter written by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in March 2021, alleging Mr Deshmukh of abusing his position and powers to seek illegal monetary benefits. The letter referred to alleged instances of Mr Deshmukh directing suspended police officer Sachin Vaze and others to collect ₹ 100 crore from bars and restaurants over a month.
Soon after the letter was made public, the High Court had ordered a preliminary enquiry against the former Maharashtra HM by the CBI. The Enforcement Directorate(ED) then stepped in and initiated a probe into charges of money laundering against the NCP leader.
A Myanmar military court has sentenced US journalist and managing editor of online site Frontier Myanmar Danny Fenster (37) to 11 years in jail for breaching immigration law, unlawful association and encouraging dissent against the military.
Fenster was slapped with two additional charges of sedition and terrorism earlier this week. He was detained at the Yangon international airport by the military in May and was one of the hundred local journalists detained since a military coup in February.
American journalist Danny Fenster was sentenced to 11 years in prison in Myanmar, his magazine said, describing the sentence as ‘the harshest possible under the law’ https://t.co/DeKzKSU35mpic.twitter.com/Ij2A5koCDr
The journalist’s trial on the new charges will begin on November 16. As per Fenster’s employer, he has received a three-year sentence for the incitement charge, three years for the unlawful association charge and five years for the immigration charge.
‘Trial took place behind closed doors’
As per a BBC report, Fenster’s trial took place behind closed doors, inside Insein prison, where he and many of those detained are held. Allegedly, the charges pressed against Fenster are ‘absurd’ and ‘unclear.’
As per the news site, “The charges were all based on the allegation that he was working for banned media outlet Myanmar Now. Danny had resigned from Myanmar Now in July 2020 and joined Frontier the following month, so at the time of his arrest in May 2021 he had been working with Frontier for more than nine months.”
‘Hard to see Biden administration soften its stance’
Jonathan Head, BBC’s South East Asia Correspondent in his analysis claimed that the US administration has softened its stance to get Fenster out.
“Perhaps the military is hoping for a gesture, a photo-op with a US official; friendless and isolated, the junta might consider that a worthwhile prize for releasing him,” wrote Head.
Myanmar coup
In February this year, the Myanmar Army had staged a coup and declared it had taken control of the country for one year under a state of emergency.
The Myanmar military’s intervention came after weeks of continued friction between the country’s military, which ruled the country for over five decades, and the civilian government over allegations of irregularities in November’s elections.
Since the coup, at least 1,178 people have been killed and 7,355 arrested, charged or sentenced in a crackdown on dissent.
Former Indian Cricketer Ravi Shastri has spoken to Arnab Goswami of Republic TV after stepping down from his role as Team India’s head coach. In the interview, Shastri gave his opinions on various topics relating to his tenure as the head coach of the Indian team and talked about the job satisfaction in spite of criticisms and constant public scrutiny.
Shastri said that he had been under public scrutiny for 7 years and now, it was time for him to have a seat the “judge’s chair” and judge some of those who had judged him.
#ShastriSpeaksToArnab | Former head coach of the Indian national cricket team, Ravi Shastri speaks to Arnab Goswami in an unmissable interview.
According to Shastri, the Indian team under his guidance had over-achieved in terms of achievements and that he was leaving as a satisfied coach. Ravi Shastri said that he was very relieved. He also said that it was “unreal” for the team to have achieved the things they did. He also said that he believes the team had ‘over-achieved ‘.
Shastri tried to explain the reason behind the heavy criticisms that the Indian team had received following T20 World Cup 2021 exit as, “In India, Cricket is a religion. You win 5 games and then when you lose, pistols and pens come out, and sometimes it’s acidic. You just got to take it on the chin. We won so much, people weren’t used to us losing,” adding, “To take the bullet is the job of the coach. You overcome all those hurdles, you don’t let it pull you down. You have to ensure the team gives their best. Take criticism along the way and move on.”
For Shastri, the Kohli led team was a transitional team and slammed the critics saying, “This was a young team in transition over the last 7 years. Many in the media didn’t know the potential of this team. I said that this was the greatest team and knew what I said and they lived up to it. They called my statements bold and bombastic. I have taken the bullet for 7 years”.
Shastri also said that the Indian team was “timid” during the match versus New Zealand and that Pakistan had played “outstandingly well” to beat India at the T20 World Cup.
Notably, this was Ravi Shastri’s fourth spell with the national team, having served earlier as the Cricket Manager, Team Director and head coach on various occasions. His second term began in 2019 and ended with India crashing out of the T20 World Cup in the Super 12 stage of the tournament.
In a shocking incident, a water supply project in Dhemaji district in Assam was named after Pakistan. When the Public Health and Engineering department installed a nameplate with the name ‘Pakistan Suba Water Supply Scheme’ at a water supply project at Bordalani Burhakuri village in Gogamukh in Dhemaji district, it caused a massive outrage from people.
After the nameplate came up, enraged members of Bir Lachit Sena applied black paint on the word ‘Pakistan’ in it, after allegedly the department did not take action despite the public outrage going on from the past couple of days. However, the department officials didn’t object when they blackened the name, and allowed them to cover it with paint.
Not just the nameplate, but the steel gate at the project also had the name Pakistan welded on it using steel bars. Later that was removed by employees of the department using hammers.
Bir Lachit Sena members blacken the name Pakistan
The project should have been named ‘Pak Sthan Suk’, but the PHE dept used the name Pakistan instead. The area is known as Pak Sthan, which means a place that can be reached through a winding road. But it has turned into ‘Pakistan’ in oral use. And somehow, that corrupted name entered the official records of the department, causing the incident.
The matter was also brought to the notice of the department minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass who assured to take strict actions against people who committed mistakes. Responding to one such tweet by a netizen Pankaj Bhattacharjee, the minister said that he had a word with the MLA of Dhemaji Ranoj Pegu and director of Jal Jeevan Mission Assam, Akash Deep. “This shall be resolved as quickly as possible & prompt necessary action will be taken,” he said.
Thanks for bringing this to our notice. I personally had a word with the Hon’ble MLA of Dhemaji Shri @ranojpeguassam & @JJM_Assam Mission Director, This shall be resolved as quickly as possible & prompt necessary action will be taken. https://t.co/FxZYiiJJKq
Now the project has been named after the village Burhakuri Dakhin Suk after the revenue village Burhakuri under which the area falls.
The official explains how Pak Sthan Suk became Pakistan
The Subdivision officer of Dhemaji (Sadar), Nandita Roy Gohain said that the word ‘Pakistan’ mentioned in the nameplate of the project was a mere spelling error. She said that the original name of the area where the project is situated is ‘Pak Sthan Suk’ – which means a location that can be reached through a winding stretch. But following philological distortion, it became Pakistan Suk. For years this distorted name has been in circulation and quite surprisingly this distorted name found place in the official documents of Assam. The official record of PHED suggests that this name has been in use since 1992.
Gohain said that the ancestors of the present residents gave the name Pak Sthan Suk. She said that it was an isolated land once due to the distant location, which was inhabited by people of Ahom and Chutia community.
The village head of Burhakuri, Parul Chutia said that irrespective of mistakes in the government documents they never used Pakistan Suk in their official communication. Pak Sthan Suk is used among the four segments of this village with 249 families and the existing project was brought for the residents of Pak Sthan Suk.
At a time when Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav is being heavily criticised for glorifying Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and the architect of India’s partition, the leftist propaganda ‘fact-check’ website AltNews decided to come to his rescue.
On November 9, 2021, AltNews published an article to unequivocally conclude that Akhilesh Yadav’s Jinnah statement was ‘fake news’ as it was misrepresented and taken out of context.
AltNews claimed that Yadav did not claim Muhammad Ali Jinnah got India freedom as he had not mentioned his name separately but with that of Sardar Patel and others.
The archived version of the AltNews report can be viewed here.
The ‘fact-check’ published by AltNews on November 9 whitewashing Akhilesh Yadav’s Jinnah comment
No sooner did AltNews ‘fact-check’ Akhilesh’s Jinnah statement, the ultra-left propaganda website The Wire also followed suit. On November 11, it published the ‘fact-check’ done by Alt News, obliquely endorsing the latter’s claim. The archived version of The Wire report can be viewed here.
The ‘fact-check’ published by The Wire on November 11 whitewashing Akhilesh Yadav’s Jinnah comment
What is interesting here is that in their haste to give a clean chit to the Samajwadi Party chief, AltNews and The Wire landed up admitting that Akhilesh Yadav indeed made the very remark he is being criticised for.
As per the logic by Alt News and Wire, praising Jinnah becomes ok if you include his name among actual freedom fighters of India.
A controversy had erupted after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav glorified Muhammad Ali Jinnah while addressing a party rally during the Samajwadi Vijay Rath Yatra on October 31. The meeting was organized at Hardoi district in UP where the Samajwadi Party Chief was seen praising Jinnah.
On the pretext of remembering Sardar Patel, Akhilesh Yadav said, ‘Sardar Patel used to know the land, he used to understand the land so he made his decisions and that is why he is known as the Iron man Of India. Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, all came out of the same institution. They all studied at the same institute, they became barristers and gave freedom to India.’
Soon after Akhilesh Yadav started being widely criticised for his controversial statement, AltNews rushed in to defend the Samajwadi Party leader and paint him as a victim of BJP’s insidious propaganda. It cited tweets posted by BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya and Kanchan Gupta to claim that Akhilesh Yadav’s statement was ‘taken out of context’.
AltNews logic: Gives clean chit to Akhilesh Yadav as he mentioned Jinnah’s name along with others and not individually
AltNews claimed that Amit Malviya had shared a cropped video claiming that the SP chief talked of Muhammad Ali Jinnah getting freedom for India. They said that on October 31, news agency ANI posted a video of Yadav’s full speech, where the remarks can be heard in their entirety, wherein Yadav was heard taking Jinnah’s name alongside Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mahatma Gandhi. Saying so Alt News claimed that “during his speech, Yadav did not mention Jinnah solely in the context of India’s freedom struggle. His statement has been clipped and is being circulated out of context”.
According to AltNews, Akhilesh Yadav first mentions Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mahatma Gandhi in context to India’s independence movement, followed by Jinnah. However, this initial portion has been cut out of the viral video, wrote Alt News fact-checking the SP chief’s statement, concluding that Yadav’s statement had been clipped and circulated out of context.
Basically, if we go with AltNews and The Wire’s logic, since Yadav did not mention Jinnah’s name solely in the context of India’s freedom struggle, but mentioned it along with that of Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, it qualifies as ‘fake news’. According to these websites, if Akhilesh Yadav did not mention Jinnah’s name exclusively he did not mention it at all.
However, there is an underlying problem here with AltNews’ ‘fact-check’. Just because Akhilesh Yadav cites Sardar Patel and others names first, it does not mean he did not mention Jinnah.
Firstly the problem with the argument presented by AltNews and further endorsed by The Wire is that while calling it ‘fake news’, these leftist websites inadvertently agreed that Akhilesh Yadav did name Muhammad Ali Jinnah, hailing himas a hero of India’s freedom movement. Secondly, it is problematic itself that they claim that Jinnah got India independence. He did not. He merely divided India on communal lines.
Furthermore, despite studying in the same university, Jinnah divided the country, while Sardar Patel united it.
It is noteworthy here that days after Yadav’s statement, his alliance partner, Om Prakash Rajbhar, the chief of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party also praised the father of Pakistan saying that the partition of India could have been prevented if Jinnah was allowed to become the first prime minister of the country.
Journalist: Akhilesh Yadav said Jinnah got freedom for the nation. Do you agree?
Omprakash Rajbhar: I agree, if he was made PM of India we wouldn't have had partition of the nation.
Samajwadi Party chief and his political allies seem to have forgotten that Jinnah not only spearheaded the partition of India, but he also instigated riots and massacres to satisfy his power lust and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Indians.
As the row over the Samajwadi Party(SP) leader’s remark raged, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a scathing attack on Akhilesh Yadav and the Samajwadi Party for the glorification of the founder of Pakistan who had spearheaded India’s partition.
CM Yogi further said that Akhilesh Yadav’s divisive mindset was revealed when he compared Jinnah to Sardar Patel. He said, “This kind of divisive mindset will not be accepted by the people of India”. He added, “This is Talibani mindset which always believes in dividing people, first he had tried to separate the social Talibans (radicals) on different grounds and when his every intention to create divide failed, he started insulting great men”.
Yadav on his part hit out at his detractors, asking them to read history books again.
In the meanwhile, a case has been filed against Akhilesh Yadav for praising Jinnah on the orders of a court in Bareilly. The court issued the order to register a case against the SP chief on a complaint filed by advocate Virendra Gupta. Gupta had filed a complaint with police, but after the police refused to register the case, he had approached the court. Taking cognizance of the same, the ACJM court ordered the police to register a case against Akhilesh Yadav.
A Delhi court on Thursday framed charges of abetment of suicide against Aap Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Prakash Jarwal and his aide in connection with the suicide of a South Delhi-based doctor.
A 52-year-old doctor, Rajender Singh was found dead by suicide on April 18, 2020, at his Delhi residence. In a note recovered from the spot, the doctor had held Jarwal and his aide Kapil Nagar responsible for his death. In the note, Singh had alleged that the AAP MLA and his aide were ‘harassing’ him and his family over the water supply business.
Alleged case of extortion
Reportedly, Singh was involved in the business of water supply with the Delhi Jal Board since 2007. The police in a case had alleged that Jarwal and his associates, which included the doctor were involved in extorting money from the water-tanker owners.
‘Enough material on record’
The court observed, “There is enough material on record to prima facie show that the accused Prakash Jarwal and Kapil Nagar extorted the deceased Dr Rajinder by threatening to kill him and his family if he did not pay the money for plying his tankers with DJB.”
Jarwal has been framed under IPC sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 120-B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt), 384 (punishment for extortion), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) by Additional Sessions Judge Geetanjali Goel.
‘Complaint based only on diary’
An FIR was registered on the complaint of Hemant Singh, the son of the deceased. Jarwal’s lawyer in the court submitted that the entire complaint against his client was made on the basis of ‘observations made in the diary of the deceased.’ He added that the ‘complainant himself was not a witness to the demand or extortion of money”.
He further added that there was nothing to show that Prakash Jarwal himself had demanded money.
FIR says Singh threatened and intimidated by Jarwal and others
As per the police investigation, the money extorted from water-tanker owners was routed through the AAP MLA’s brother Anil Jarwal. The money was then invested in several properties and farmhouses located in Delhi, Gurugram and Jaipur.
The police had recovered a WhatsApp group in the name of tanker-owners whose administrator is Nagar, Jarwal’s close aide. Jarwal also is a member of the group.
As informed by the police, the investigations revealed the direct involvement of both the accused in running the tanker mafia in Sangam Vihar and Tigri.
On Friday (November 12), Pakistani cricket team captain Babar Azam took a U-turn after blaming fellow cricketer Hassan Ali for the match defeat against Australia during the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2021.
In a video shared on the official Youtube channel of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Babar Azam was heard as saying, “We need to learn from our defeat. The unit that we created should not break. None should point fingers at each other. We did not play well as a team. One should not resort to blaming his teammates. None of you will talk negative and instead focus on the positives. Yes, we have lost. No issues. We will learn from it.”
He further added, “It takes a long time to form a unit like this. This defeat should not lead to its breakup. One loss in a cricket match should not de-motivate anyone to desert the team. I always back everyone. We have maintained a family-like atmosphere within the team. Everyone has put in effort… All of you have discharged your responsibilities in each match. This is what is expected from the team… I know everyone is unhappy but this is temporary.”
Although the Pakistani skipper appeared seemingly understanding and supportive towards all team members, this was however not the case on Thursday (November 11) night. Babar Azam was quick to throw his fellow teammate Hassan Ali under the bus after the match loss.
“The turning point of the match was the dropped catch of Matthew Wade. A new batter coming in then and it would have been a different scenario and maybe a different result. As a player, you should always be on your toes and take any opportunity that arises,” Babar Azam had remarked.
Hassan Ali put up a poor show against Australia during the semi-final match. He had conceded 44 runs in 4 overs, with the Australian side hitting him for 4 fours and 1 six. Despite an economy rate of 11 per over, he failed to get any wickets. He gave 15 runs in the 18th over and dropped the crucial catch of Matthew Wade in the 19th over, which proved to be a gamechanger for Australia. Wade went on to smash 41 runs in just 17 walls to lead his team to a comfortable victory.
Although Babar Azam has now resorted to ‘damage control’ mode, Opindia had earlier reported how Hassan Ali was vilified for being a Shia Muslim by many in Pakistan. He was subjected to a flurry of personal comments, charges of match-fixing, derogatory remarks about his mother and Indian-born wife.
Given that Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country, Islamists do not leave any chance to abuse the Shia community for any misfortune that befalls the country. Following Pakistan’s humiliating loss to Australia, conspiracy theories about Hassan Ali being a Shia (and hence losing the match deliberately) began floating on social media.
Soon after the match loss, Pakistani cricket fans had flooded social media with hateful and abusive remarks against Hassan Ali.
US President Joe Biden has called Satchel Paige “the great negro” at during his Veterans Day address at the Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday. While speaking on the occasion, Biden had drifted into a story about the late baseball player Satchel Paige who played in the so called ‘Negro Leagues’ before joining Major League Baseball in the late 1940s.
NOW – Biden tells a story about pitcher Satchel Paige, referring to him as “the great negro at the time.”pic.twitter.com/uwnkUlBTsL
Biden said, “I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher of the Negro leagues, who went on to become a great pitcher in the pros — in Major League Baseball — after Jackie Robinson. His name was Satchel Paige.” The statement was made as Biden honored former U.S. Ambassador, Donald Blinken, an Army veteran and father of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Biden talked about Satchel Paige when he pitched a win against Chicago on his 47th birthday and added, “And all the press went in and said, ‘Satch is amazing. Forty-seven years old. No one’s ever, ever pitched a win at age 47. How do you feel about being 47?’ He said, ‘Boys, that’s not how I look at it.’ And they said, ‘How do you look at it, Satch? And he said, ‘I look at it this way: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?’”
The gaffe has expectedly sparked significant social media outrage with users recalling the time when he had said Black people are not Black if they do not vote Democrat.
Joe Biden literally called someone a "Great Negro" at his speech today.
This is the same man who told Black voters they "ain't Black" if they don't vote for them.
IMAGINE if anyone on the Right had made a remark ANYWHERE NEAR this.
Calling someone a “negro” in modern context is not OK, especially if you are a career politician named Joe Biden with a LONG history of saying racist things and promoting racist policy.
It’s disgusting that Democrats are actually *excusing* this in the name of politics.
This is not the first time that Joe Biden has dropped the n-word. The last time he said it, it was during the Virtual Munich Security Conference in February this year.
Biden id, of course, used to committing gaffes at this point. Only recently, President Biden had let out a huge fart during a conversation with the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles, at the COP26 in Glasgow. As per reports, the fart had surprised the Duchess so much that she could not stop talking about it.
The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has sought Interpol’s help for deportation of two men who are currently believed to be in the United States in connection with a case involving derogatory remarks posted against judges and judiciary on social media platforms, a report published in Times of India said.
The central probe agency used Blue Notice to ascertain the whereabouts of the two suspects—C Prabhakar Reddy aka ‘Punch’ Prabhakar and Mani Annapureddy—and is using diplomatic channels to secure their extradition to India. It took the use of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty(MLAT) to collect information related to Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts, Facebook posts, tweets, YouTuber videos from Facebook, Twitter, Google etc. of the suspects.
According to the sources close to the CBI, the agency had arrest warrants issued against the two suspects and had also filed six more charge sheets in the case. About 6 people from different places in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have been already arrested and sent to judicial custody in relation to the case. They are accused of making disparaging remarks against judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court over certain verdicts.
Supreme Court had said judges are not priority of probe agencies
The CBI’s efforts to seek international assistance for nabbing two suspects in the case came after the apex court of the country expressed its displeasure with the probing agencies for their failure in bringing to book the accused. Earlier in August 2021, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana lamented that judges were not on priority for the investigating agencies and that their complaints of being harassed and intimidated were not being important enough to be addressed despite the involvement of specialised bodies like the CBI in the investigation.
Besides the 6 arrested, the CBI had arrested another 5 accused in July and August and also filed five separate charge sheets against them. A total of 11 charge sheets have been filed against all the arrested 11 accused while the CBI has sought assistance from Interpol to deport the remaining 2 accused in the case.
In addition to this, the probe agency had also questioned Lok Sabha MP Nandigam Suresh and former MLA Amanchi Krishnamohan, both belonging to YSR Congress, in the case. In a separate case in October 2020, the Andhra Pradesh HC had fumed over derogatory posts made by YSRCP leaders after they had accused the judges of being ‘partial’. The YSRCP leaders were criticising the HC after its request for a CBI probe into the ‘Amaravati scam’ was rejected by the High Court.
CBI took over the case in November 2020 and filed a case against 16 people accused of making derogatory remarks against the judges and the Indian judiciary. Until then, the CID, Andhra Pradesh, was probing the matter and had filed 12 FIRs in the case. The original FIRs were registered on complaints of Registrar General of high court of Andhra Pradesh. After taking over the case, the CBI had gotten social media companies to delete the contentious posts, along with getting YouTube channels blocked from the social media platforms and public domain.
After an electrifying T20 World Cup semi-finals in Dubai, several videos of heartbroken Pakistani fans have surfaced on social media. Pakistan faced an embarrassing defeat in the semi-finals played on Thursday against Australia.
The Pakistani fans gathered in the stadium and in front of the TV sets were quite confident about their team’s win, however, one over by bowler Shaheen Afridi and a dropped catch by Hasan Ali, changed the dynamics.
Several Pakistani fans were caught on camera shedding tears and explicitly blaming Ali for the loss.
‘Dil toot gaya’
Slamming Ali and crying at the same time, a fan interviewed outside the Dubai cricket stadium said that Ali was just concerned about his hairstyle. He further said, “Dil toot gaya hai, aawaz hi nahi nikal rahi (I am heartbroken and unable to speak).”
He also claimed that Ali had no idea how important the match was.
Another teary-eyed fan crying on the shoulder of a fellow spectator also blamed Ali for the loss, but then said, “After all it’s a game.”
“I don’t have words,” said another fan at a time when some other disappointed fans from the crowd asked the Pakistan cricketers to eat ‘pizze and burger.’
“Ek nikkame bowler aur tournament ke sabse mehenge bowler ke vajah se match haar gaye (We lost the match because of the most useless and expensive bowler of the season),” the fan whined further.
Children sob after loss
In another video, a young boy can be seen crying profusely after Pakistan’s defeat.
Former Pakistani cricketer Shoiab Akhtar also took to Twitter to share a video of a disheartened young boy. “This is what happens when your team plays well. Fans get engaged. Thats why this World Cup was so important for us,” he said.
This is what happens when your team plays well. Fans get engaged. Thats why this World Cup was so important for us. pic.twitter.com/u9nfRYS8Ye
In another video, an enraged fan can be seen hurling insults at Ali for dropping a crucial catch. “You go get photoshoots done, make videos and dance like eunuch,” lamented the fan.
Calling him ‘ek takke ka,’ the fan also blamed team selection for the defeat.
Ali receives religious abuses
With even the captain of the Pakistan cricket team blaming Hasan Ali in the post-match presentation for the loss, it was obvious that the fans would hold him the sole culprit.
Apart from abuses, fans of the Sunni-majority country went about asking if Ali was a Shia and abused him in vile language.
Considering Ali’s wife is an Indian, several labeled him a traitor and accused him of match-fixing.
