Ex-Pak cricketer Shahid Afridi backs Taliban

TIL Desk Sports/ After Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, former cricketer Shahid Afridi has also thrown his weight behind the Taliban and said the terror outfit has come with a ‘positive mind’ to power.

In a video clipping tweeted by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat, Afridi can be seen telling reporters that the Taliban is ‘allowing women to work’, and ‘likes cricket’.

‘No doubt Taliban have come. But, they have come with a very positive mind. They’re allowing ladies to work. They are allowing them to participate in politics. They are supporting cricket…And I believe the Taliban like cricket a lot,’ Afridi told reporters.