{"id":62160,"date":"2019-05-26T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62160"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:38:26","slug":"pakistans-asif-ali-leaves-for-england-after-daughters-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistans-asif-ali-leaves-for-england-after-daughters-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Asif Ali leaves for England after daughter\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asif Ali, who lost his daughter earlier this week, left for England on Saturday following the funeral to join the rest of the team preparing for the ICC World Cup 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dua, who suffered from stage four cancer, died in a hospital in the United States on Sunday and was buried in the Punjab province city of Faisalabad on Thursday. The hard-hitting batsman had said last month that his daughter was being flown to the US for her treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calling his 19-month old daughter Dua Fatima a warrior, Asif wrote on Twitter that she would continue to be his strength and inspiration. \u201cI want to remember Dua Fatima as a warrior,\u201d tweeted 27-year-old Asif. \u201cShe was my strength and inspiration. The fragrance of her memories is going to stay with me forever. I again request you all to pray for the soul of my princess. Thanks again for being there for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asif was not named in the preliminary squad for the World Cup but was called up after hitting two half-centuries in the ODI series against England. Pakistan had lost the series 4-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar also expressed his condolences and said that Asif might keep thinking of his late daughter during the World Cup<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asif Ali, who lost his daughter earlier this week, left for England on Saturday following the funeral to join the rest of the team preparing for the ICC World Cup 2019. Dua, who suffered from stage four cancer, died in a hospital in the United States on Sunday and was buried in the Punjab province [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62162,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62160\/revisions\/62162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}