{"id":269427,"date":"2022-07-03T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T10:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=269427"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T10:19:30","slug":"shoaib-akhtar-to-perform-as-state-guest-of-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/shoaib-akhtar-to-perform-as-state-guest-of-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib Akhtar to perform as state guest of Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Islamabad<br \/>\nFormer Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar will perform Hajj as an official state guest of Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\nSharing his pictures in an Ahram, the former fast bowler announced the development on his official Twitter handle.<br \/>\nThe star player wrote: \u201cAlhamdolillah going for honorary Hajj as the state guest of Saudi Arabia.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 46-year-old will also address the Hajj Conference where prominent Muslim personalities worldwide will participate.<br \/>\nShoaib Akhtar also thanked the Saudi Embassy and Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki for providing him with the opportunity to perform Hajj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar will perform Hajj as an official state guest of Saudi Arabia. Sharing his pictures in an Ahram, the former fast bowler announced the development on his official Twitter handle. The star player wrote: \u201cAlhamdolillah going for honorary Hajj as the state guest of Saudi Arabia.\u201d The 46-year-old will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shoaib Akhtar to perform as state guest of Saudi Arabia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/shoaib-akhtar-to-perform-as-state-guest-of-saudi-arabia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shoaib Akhtar to perform as state guest of Saudi Arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar will perform Hajj as an official state guest of Saudi Arabia. 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