{"id":270881,"date":"2022-07-13T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=270881"},"modified":"2022-07-13T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:25:02","slug":"shoaib-akhtar-heads-back-to-pakistan-after-performing-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/shoaib-akhtar-heads-back-to-pakistan-after-performing-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib Akhtar heads back to Pakistan after performing Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nPakistan cricket legend Shoaib Akhtar is returning to Pakistan after performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\nDuring his entire Hajj journey, the \u201cspeedster\u201d kept his fans updated on almost every activity he took during the holy sojourn.<br \/>\nIn his latest Tweet, Akhtar said, \u201cAlhamdolillah, completed my Hajj journey and headed back to Pakistan.\u201d<br \/>\nThe former Pakistan pacer thanked the Saudi government for granting him the status of \u201cstate guest\u201d. Hailing the Saudi government, he said that the hajj ministry looked after him \u201creally well\u201d.<br \/>\nHe also thanked Nawaf Bin Saeed Al-Malki, Saudi ambassador to Pakistan, for facilitating him during hajj.<br \/>\nShoaib Akhtar stones shaitan at \u2018100mph\u2019<br \/>\nOn July 9, Akhtar performed \u201crami\u201d \u2014 act of stoning the devil \u2014 in Mina. This ritual is a symbolic reenactment of the incident between the Prophet Ibrahim (AS) and satan.<br \/>\n\u201c[I] didn\u2019t measure the speed, but the anger was definitely 100 mph,\u201d Akhtar wrote in an Instagram post.<br \/>\nAlso, in the video, while making a fist, he said: \u201cIsko chorna nahi [don\u2019t spare him.\u201d<br \/>\nThe cricket legend left for Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, as a state guest of the kingdom, last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Pakistan cricket legend Shoaib Akhtar is returning to Pakistan after performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia. During his entire Hajj journey, the \u201cspeedster\u201d kept his fans updated on almost every activity he took during the holy sojourn. In his latest Tweet, Akhtar said, \u201cAlhamdolillah, completed my Hajj journey and headed back to Pakistan.\u201d The former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"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 heads back to Pakistan after performing Hajj<\/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-heads-back-to-pakistan-after-performing-hajj\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shoaib Akhtar heads back to Pakistan after performing Hajj\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Pakistan cricket legend Shoaib Akhtar is returning to Pakistan after performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia. 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