{"id":324,"date":"2025-09-10T05:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=324"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:48:46","slug":"shahid-afridi-urges-nation-to-support-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Shahid Afridi urges nation to support flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi urged people to stand by flood victims, calling it the \u201cmost beautiful form of worship\u201d to help those in need.<br><br><\/strong>Speaking at an event in Islamabad, Afridi said he had personally witnessed the suffering of mothers, children, and animals amid the devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afridi recounted seeing children and animals forced to drink water from the same source and people walking 10 kilometers just to fetch a pot of water. He appealed to the public to visit flood-hit communities, embrace the victims, and extend support during their hardships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI speak less and act more,\u201d Afridi said, emphasizing that governments should not run businesses but focus on serving people. Reflecting on his cricket career of more than two decades, he said while he initially played for himself, there comes a time when one must rise for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have embarked on this journey, and I ask everyone to join us in supporting those affected by the floods,\u201d Afridi added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi urged people to stand by flood victims, calling it the \u201cmost beautiful form of worship\u201d to help those in need. Speaking at an event in Islamabad, Afridi said he had personally witnessed the suffering of mothers, children, and animals amid the devastation. Afridi recounted seeing children and animals forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}