So, these awareness trips always bring back the best lessons in parallel history: In 2019, PM Khan felt he won the 1992 World Cup after UNGA and his supporters found, rather gave birth, to ‘Senator Tony Booker’ to silence all critics amongst other life-altering lessons for us.Īlso read: Support for Taliban in Pakistan goes beyond military and maulvis nowĪfridi, in his previous outing as minister for narcotics control, earned the title of ‘ Maine jaan allah ko deni hai’. It’s what he would reply with when repeatedly asked for evidence in a high-profile narcotics case against a political opponent Rana Sanaullah. Afridi had himself jubilantly furthered the same propaganda earlier on the floor of Pakistan’s national assembly when a morphed image of former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi being stripped searched in an American airport was doing the rounds. Afridi had then said, the law of any law is supreme. Now the shoe was on the other foot, and chairman, Kashmir committee wasn’t much elated. But the rumour mills wouldn’t stop at anything less than Afridi being strip-searched at JFK, to which he responded that this was propaganda by the “ Indian lobby” because he was in the US for the great cause of Kashmir. On his arrival to the US, Shehryar Afridi was stopped at the JFK Airport for a secondary screening. We now wait for Afridi’s ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty, from where he’ll probably tell us how Liberty is also a “ quom ki beti” who is standing by herself – look at the decaying values. So, if CNN thinks US President Joe Biden not calling PM Khan is a punishment, then Shehryar Afridi wandering aimlessly in Manhattan is our PM’s punishment for the US. Afridi praises Imran Khan for launching langar schemes in Pakistan after he finds the first homeless man in Time’s Square. Though the question is, if you want to hit a home run on your PM’s performance, why go this far? Make a video in any Pakistani city, and upload it on your YouTube channel and save the exchequer’s money. He is in US as part of Pakistan’s delegation to #UNGA:Īlso read: Why India wants UN to stop being ‘selective’ with Abrahamic religions, not take sidesĭevoid of any diplomatic manners Afridi’s nine-minute lecture is a typical example of the genre: M ere Pakistanio, tum jis haal mein ho, do o sro se boh o t behtar reh rahe ho (Pakistanis, the way you’re living is much better than others), so don’t ask for more. Video of #Pakistan-i Parliamentarian Shehryar Afridi taking a weekend stroll in Times Square, New York, while bashing American Women & Values. As Afridi patronises, the family of Noor Mukadam, who was beheaded in Islamabad, is seeking justice, and another woman from Karachi is raped for two years by her brother who kept her hostage in an apartment. Women in Pakistan are living under better conditions than in those countries that pretend to be the champions of human rights,” Afridi tells us from New York. Meanwhile, Pakistani women continue to fight the endemic of violent sexual crimes. “Look at the condition of women in the country which lectures others on human rights. Seen roaming in Time’s Square, recording homeless people on the sidewalks, and doing live commentary on the women passing by, he insisted that Pakistanis should be thankful for everything that they are blessed with. Wearing a Levi’s T-shirt, he decided to become a vlogger and lecture the mighty United States. However, somewhere down the awareness trip, Shehryar Afridi lost his own awareness.
The idea of his visit is reportedly to “raise awareness”. We will tell you why.Īs chairman of Pakistan’s parliamentary committee on Kashmir, Shehryar Afridi was sent to the UNGA by Prime Minister Imran Khan to tell the world what all has been brewing in Jammu and Kashmir. But who stands out, literally, is a first-time visitor to the United States from Pakistan, Shehryar Khan Afridi. There will be world leaders who’ll make speeches at the UN and then there are those who want first-time entry as the new rulers of Afghanistan - the Taliban. New York is lit this week because of the United Nations General Assembly.