Supporting Pakis
This is in response to the letter 'Supporting Pakistani cricketers' by Zeenat Z Syed. Ms. Zeenat said that I went against the girls who supported Pak cricketers. But in my letter I wrote about those girls who supported Pakistan when Bangladesh first played against them in the World Cup. At that time one of their mothers said to my mother how her two daughters did not eat rice for several days because the handsome Pak cricketers they were besotted with were trounced by Bangladesh. Their mother was also very sad about the fact.
Not only this. I saw many girls having a hard time to swallow the fact that Bangladesh defeated Pakistan. I do not know how Ms. Zeenat feels about this. But I think this kind of behaviour is utterly unpatriotic, disgusting and unacceptable. Unfortunately, Ms. Zeenat missed the main point of my letter. I did not write to go against the Pakistan supporters. I wrote, "everyone has the right to support a team but the reasons offered by Mr. Upal for not holding Pakistan responsible for 1971 is not right." I wrote why his reasons are illogical and so will not repeat. I will request Ms. Zeenat to read my letter first before replying.
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