Pakistani sports presenter and commentator Zainab Abbas has issued anapology for leaving the World Cup 2023 midway, following the registrationof a first information report (FIR) against her.
Indian media had reported that the Pakistani presenter was ‘deported’ fromIndia. However, an ICC spokesperson refuted these claims, stating that sheleft India for a “personal reason.”
Zainab Abbas had been in India as part of the ICC’s list of presenters forthe ongoing Cricket World Cup 2023. She clarified in her latest post onsocial media that she was not deported from India but expressed her dismayat the online reaction.
Her stay in India took an unexpected turn when an Indian lawyer filed acomplaint against her, accusing her of making derogatory remarks on socialmedia platforms against India and the Hindu religion based on herdecade-old tweets.
However Zainab Abbas has tendered apology over her past tweets and informedthat she didn’t mean to hurt someone feelings on it.
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Despite this incident, Zainab Abbas relocated from India to Dubai,according to our sources.
Meanwhile, Pakistani fans and journalists are still awaiting visas totravel to India for the World Cup. Visas for the Pakistan team were grantedjust 48 hours before their departure, marking their first tour of Indiasince the T20 World Cup in 2016.