{"id":58339,"date":"2025-04-28T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58339\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:18:09","slug":"extremist-views-after-shahid-afridis-post-pahalgam-rant-danish-kaneria-renews-conversion-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58339\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extremist Views&#8217;: After Shahid Afridi&#8217;s Post-Pahalgam Rant, Danish Kaneria Renews &#8216;Conversion&#8217; Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated:April 28, 2025, 13:18 IST<\/p>\n<p>Former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi had made a bizarre claim after terrorist killed 26 civilians in Kashmir&#8217;s Pahalgam last week.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shahid Afridi (left) and Danish Kaneria (Screengrab\/IG\/danishkaneria61)\" title=\"Shahid Afridi (left) and Danish Kaneria (Screengrab\/IG\/danishkaneria61)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745871489_575_1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"jsx-6e18a19dd650cd45 jsx-3344784913\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shahid Afridi (left) and Danish Kaneria (Screengrab\/IG\/danishkaneria61)<\/p>\n<p id=\"0\" class=\"story_para_0\">Former Pakistan cricketer Danish Kaneria has slammed Shahid Afridi after the latter\u2019s comments on the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pahalgam last week. A clip of Afridi making bizarre claims on the attack that left 26 civilians dead have been doing the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1\" class=\"story_para_1\">Afridi raised questions over the attack while making unfounded claims.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2\" class=\"story_para_2\">Criticising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/cricket\/profile\/shahid-afridi\/108403.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afridi<\/a> for his extremist views, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/topics\/danish-kaneria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaneria<\/a> claimed the former Pakistan captain tried to persuade him to convert to Islam besides declining to share a meal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3\" class=\"story_para_3\">\u201cHe has consistently aligned himself with extremist views. In my opinion, he should not be given a platform on Indian television or within the country. Additionally, he tried to persuade me to convert to Islam and declined to share a meal with me, which I found deeply disrespectful,&#8221; Kaneria posted on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He has consistently aligned himself with extremist views. In my opinion, he should not be given a platform on Indian television or within the country. Additionally, he tried to persuade me to convert to Islam and declined to share a meal with me, which I found deeply\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gArYTNX1x4\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/gArYTNX1x4<\/a>\u2014 Danish Kaneria (@DanishKaneria61) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanishKaneria61\/status\/1916754231052431379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"4\" class=\"story_para_4\">Earlier, in an interview with Pakistani media, Afridi had demanded proof of his country\u2019s involvement in the Pahalgam terrorist attack while questioning Indian army.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5\" class=\"story_para_5\">\u201cPatakha phat jaata hai wahaa par, Pakistan ne kiya. Tum logo ki 8 lakh ki fauj hai Kashmir mein aur ye ho gaya. Iska matlab nalayak ho, nikamme ho na tum log ki security nahi de sake logo ko (Even if a cracker bursts in India, they blame it on Pakistan. You have an 8 lakh-strong army in Kashmir, yet this happened. This means you are useless for not being able to provide security to people),&#8221; Afridi said on Samaa TV.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6\" class=\"story_para_6\">Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the attack, the Indian government has banned a host of Pakistan YouTube channels for \u201cdisseminating provocative and communally sensitive content, false and misleading narratives and misinformation against India, its Army and security agencies&#8221;. Among the channels that have been banned include former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar\u2019s 100mph, Basit Ali\u2019s BasitAliShow among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/cricket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cricket<\/a>   &#8216;Extremist Views&#8217;: After Shahid Afridi&#8217;s Post-Pahalgam Rant, Danish Kaneria Renews &#8216;Conversion&#8217; Charge<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Updated:April 28, 2025, 13:18 IST Former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi had made a bizarre claim after terrorist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,11096,30564,30566,27441,30565,30563,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-58339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-news","10":"tag-danish-kaneria","11":"tag-latest-cricket-news","12":"tag-pahalgam-attack","13":"tag-pakistan-cricket-team","14":"tag-shahid-afridi","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114417441534322225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}