{"id":9078,"date":"2022-06-29T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9078"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:53:34","slug":"star-shahid-afridi-responds-after-getting-fined-on-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/star-shahid-afridi-responds-after-getting-fined-on-motorway\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Shahid Afridi responds after getting fined on motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi has responded to the fine he was slapped with by the Motorway police for speeding during his drive to Karachi from Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi paid Rs1,500 as a penalty for violating traffic rules and lauded the Motorway police for not favouring him because he is a sports celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good to interact with a polite staff at @NHMPofficial and I found them very professional,&#8221; the all-rounder and former skipper said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good to interact with a polite staff at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHMPofficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NHMPofficial<\/a> and I found them very professional. Also my humble suggestion we have very good highways, the speed allowed should be more than 120kph! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7qCmcDxfT\">https:\/\/t.co\/F7qCmcDxfT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAfridiOfficial\/status\/1541749296915267584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But he humbly suggested that the speed allowed should be more than 120kph as the country has &#8220;very good highways&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi is known for his blistering sixes during cricket matches. The ex-skipper represented Pakistan in 27 Tests, 98 ODIs and 99 T20I matches. He has scored 1,716 runs in Test cricket, 8,064 in ODIs and 1,416 in T20s.<\/p>\n<p>During his international career, Shahid Afridi took 48 wickets in Tests, 395 in ODIs, and 98 in T20s.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the National Highways &amp; Motorway Police (NHMP) thanked Afridi for his appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi has responded to the fine he was slapped with by the Motorway police for speeding during his drive to Karachi from Lahore. Afridi paid Rs1,500 as a penalty for violating traffic rules and lauded the Motorway police for not favouring him because he is a sports celebrity. &#8220;Good to interact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6118,6119],"class_list":["post-9078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-motorway-police","tag-national-highways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}