President Asif Ali Zardari (center) is given memento by PCB Chairman/Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi at a reception hosted for Pakistan and Bangladeshi gamers at Governor Home, Lahore — PCBPresident seeks to strengthen bilateral ties with Bangladesh.Zardari hopes extra such cricket excursions to happen.He expresses his want to go to Dhaka.
President Asif Ali Zardari requested Pakistan males’s cricket crew gamers to steer clear of crew politics and give attention to their profession in sports activities as politics just isn’t their area.
On a lighter notice, the president commented, through the reception hosted for Pakistan and Bangladesh cricket groups on the Governor’s Home Lahore on Sunday, saying crickets ought to go away politics to politicians like him because it was not their forte.
Referring to his battle as a politician when he was incarcerated for 14 years for being a politician, he mentioned, “please leave politics to people like us who can go to prison for 14 years.”
President Zardari, maybe, was referring to the final impression that the participant politics was taking root inside Pakistan males’s cricket crew.
Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan, PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi, Excessive Commissioner of Bangladesh to Pakistan Muhammad Iqbal Hussain, BCB cricket Operations Head Nazmul Abedeen Fahim, Advisor to Chairman PCB Amir Mir, crew officers, and members of Pakistan and Bangladesh cricket groups had been current on the event.
Nevertheless, the president took benefit of the chance as sports activities diplomacy and used cricket as a way to strengthen social, diplomatic and political relations with Bangladesh.
He bolstered the message that Pakistan intends to forge sturdy bilateral relations with Bangladesh in all areas — together with commerce, commerce, sports activities, tradition and people-to-people ties.
Moreover, he informed the younger cricketers from each the nations that they weren’t conscious of the pangs of cessation of 1971 just like the older generations like him when two brothers parted methods.
He mentioned it was the time to fix damaged hearts on either side of the frontiers.
The message of hope, mutual understanding, reconciliation and brotherhood was loud and clear all through President Zardari’s deal with to the cricketers, diplomats, cricket officers and folks throughout the border.
Recognising the transformative energy of cricket as a sports activities that helps individuals to unite all through the world, the president mentioned to Bangladeshi gamers, crew officers and diplomats, “I am happy to host you all in Pakistan, in Lahore. And I’m hoping that there will be many more such trips.”
As cricket is about lasting friendships and concord, President Zardari additionally expressed his want to go to Bangladesh, including that he had not been to Dhaka for a very long time.
He fondly recalled his pupil days on the Pitaro Cadet School, Jamshoro and the lasting friendships he made throughout these days with Bangladeshi pals, including that he was in shut contact with Bangladeshi faculty pals even at the moment.
The president hailed the Bangladesh tigers for his or her immense expertise and wished them an awesome future.
He additionally lavished reward on the younger Pakistan crew and expressed the hope it should do effectively on the worldwide entrance.
“The world is young; you are young and it’s your time. We’ve seen our time, this is your time.”
All of you’re going to see the long run. I bless you, hoping that you simply’ll have an eventful good future,” President Zardari mentioned to the cricketers from each nations.
President Asif Zardari had group pictures with each the groups whereas he gave aways mementos to the officers of the visiting Bangladesh crew.
PCB Chairman Moshin Naqvi offered President Zardari a framed memento of Pakistan cricket crew jersey along with his identify scripted on it.
