{"id":148795,"date":"2025-09-17T02:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148795\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:52:30","slug":"shahid-afridi-slams-modi-praises-rahul-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148795\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahid Afridi slams Modi, praises Rahul | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758077550_876_.jpg\" alt=\"Shahid Afridi slams Modi, praises Rahul\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bjp\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BJP<\/a> on Tuesday latched on to former Pakistani cricketer <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shahid-afridi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shahid Afridi<\/a>&#8216;s praise of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rahul-gandhi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rahul Gandhi<\/a> as having a &#8220;positive mindset&#8221; to target the Congress neta, saying he has been a &#8220;darling&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pakistan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan<\/a> &amp; people of the neighbouring country can choose him as their leader.Afridi was critical of PM <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Modi<\/a> and his dispensation while he praised Gandhi during a Pakistani TV discussion. The conversation went viral amid a furore in Pakistan over Indian cricket team&#8217;s decision to not shake hands with their rivals during the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Cup<\/a> match . The decision was seen as an expression of solidarity with victims of Pahalgam attack. Union minister Kiren Rijiju said, &#8220;Rahul has been the darling of Pakistan! Afridi and people of Pakistan can make Rahul their leader.&#8221;BJP&#8217;s IT department head Amit Malviya said, &#8220;Afridi says Rahul wants &#8216;dialogue&#8217; with Pakistan, while attacking Modi by comparing India&#8217;s policy on Pakistan to Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza. Why is it that every India-hater finds a friend in Rahul Gandhi?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday latched on to former Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi&#8216;s praise of Rahul Gandhi as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[21425,64,63,77105,1348,740,8061,1209,6464,8060,100280,56880,15299,36608,7873,85,3358],"class_list":["post-148795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bjp","tag-breaking-news","tag-cricket","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-india-pakistan-relations","tag-modi","tag-pakistan","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-shahid-afridi","tag-sports","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}