{"id":84246,"date":"2017-03-09T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/peshawar-zalmi-to-visit-kabul\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T04:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:15:33","slug":"peshawar-zalmi-to-visit-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/peshawar-zalmi-to-visit-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Peshawar Zalmi to visit Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/march\/9\/431335-shahrukh-khan-ipl-trophy.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has rejected reports about any communication with the Peshawar Zalmi about cricket series between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, reports suggested Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan congratulated Peshawar Zalmi&#39;s owner Javed Afridi for winning the Pakistan Super League final that was played in Lahore on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his conversation with Khan, Afridi said, &quot;Shahrukh congratulated me and suggested a T20 series between Kolkata Knight Riders and Peshawar Zalmi.&quot; According to the Dawn news, optimistic about the prospects of such a series Afridi added, &quot;If the governments of both countries allow it, the matches can be played on a neutral venue like England or United Arab Emirates.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Shahrukh Khan owns the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), two time champions of the Indian Premier League. The KKR as well as Javed Afridi rejected the &lsquo;rumors&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on Wednesday Afridi had accepted an invitation from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani&#39;s for the Zalmis to visit Kabul in the summer this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hekmat Khalil Karzai, deputy Foreign Minister, congratulated him, and extended an invitation on behalf of the President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Karzai called Zalmi &lsquo;Khpal&rsquo; (own) team. &ldquo;We have accepted the invitation and the visit is expected in May,&rdquo; Afridi told The Express Tribune. Javed Afridi said foreign players of the team will also travel to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal also congratulated the team<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has rejected reports about any communication with the Peshawar Zalmi about cricket series between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}