Peshawar Zalmi owner seeks honorary citizenship for Darren Sammy

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Faizan Lakhani
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Peshawar Zalmi owner seeks honorary citizenship for Darren Sammy

Javed Afridi, the owner of PSL team Peshawar Zalmi, has requested the president of Pakistan to confer the honorary citizenship of Pakistan to the West Indian captain, Darren Sammy for his love and support for Pakistan cricket.

In a letter addressed to President Mamnoon Hussain, Afridi on Tuesday said that Sammy has offered his complete support to restoration of international cricket in Pakistan.

“Mr. Darren Sammy is one of the most affable, popular and renowned Cricketer worldwide. He is also in love with Pakistan and its Cricket,” Afridi wrote in the letter to the president.

“He has offered his complete support to restore the international Cricket in Pakistan, when other foreign players are absolutely averse to visiting Pakistan,” he stated.

Afridi said that the “small gesture” of conferring honorary citizenship to Darren Sammy – whom he termed as very special friend and huge well-wisher of Pakistan – will be a great help in projecting Pakistan’s soft image.

“We are extremely confident that this small gesture will be a big leap forward in projecting a soft image of Pakistan at zero expense of the national exchequer, and thwarting the nefarious designs of our enemies who are sparing no opportunity to defame Pakistan’s image internationally,” Afridi wrote in the letter to the president.

Meanwhile, Darren Sammy has also been tweeting about his love for Pakistan, and to surprise many, the West Indian star has posted some tweets in Pashtu language.

Earlier, Darren Sammy got an unlikely response, apparently from a fake account of KP CM Pervaiz Khattak, after Javed Afridi’s tweet on honorary citizenship to the Caribbean star.

Without knowing the authenticity of the account, the West Indian captain had innocently thanked him using Pashtu words.