Senior journalist and Bureau Chief of Dawn News, Iftikhar Shirazi, has claimed that batting maestro Babar Azam, along with fellow cricketers, told the Chief of Army staff of Pakistan (COAS) General Asim Munir during the April 8 iftar dinner that former Prime Minister Imran Khan is our ideal cricketer and national star who won the World Cup for Pakistan. “It doesn’t feel good that he is in jail,” Babar allegedly said.
COAS Asim Munir invited Pakistan cricket team to an iftar party on April 8 after the training camp of the national cricket team in Kakul.
Babar himself has neither denied nor confirmed the statement as yet.