This is in reference to the news item brought by Heraldo dadet 02.04.20 on “Indian Cricketers Face Backlash for supporting Pakistan Virus fund”., it should be clearly understood well that it is not the PAKISTAN virus fund but of one individual Pakistani cricketer initiated fund which was an initiative of one world renown cricketer who is the citizen of Pakistan. Shahid Afridi as I observed him is a gentleman without much traces of narrow parochialism. Also, I found him to be a broad minded metropolitan international thinker. However, that overwhelming majority of Indians are having in their blood “hate Pakistan – hate Pakistanis” attitude is proved once again how Indians reacted to the two Indian Cricketers support to the Pakistani Ex-Skipper Afridi’s Foundation which was established to create a fund for the Corona Virus.
I on my part, strongly support not only both the ex-renown Indian Cricketers Yuvraj Sing and Harbachan Singh for openly and boldly supporting the Afridi Foundation but I also openly support all the like minded Indians and any other citizen of any country in the world. This is not the time to talk rubbish on sectarian terms nor it is time now to indicate our communalism. Coruna Virus is an international issue without having any borders of its own legally, it is the humanitarian issue needing human heart to support it, it has no boundary of its own to confine itself within one’s own borders, it moves very speedily from one’s borders to the borders of the others needing no border checks, you cannot monitor and check its movement from one country to the other country even though you may have best of supersonic surveillance Jet Planes to detect its movement but Corona Virus has ultimately made a big joke of all the most deadly and powerful weapons and instruments of detecting its passage from one country to the other. It does not perform its border formalities because it does not believe in documentations which are normally required for human beings at the point of borders crossing. I find no reason why the Indians should not support the Foundation coming up to tackle this Virus and help humanity to overcome all the dangers looming over the entire humanity, out of fear emanating from its most deadly bite.
A.Veronica Fernandes.