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My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
Sabaa Tahir
Religion
Culture
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Born
Entrenched
Were
Where
Explicitly
Pakistan
Raised
If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.
Sabaa Tahir
Confused
Parents
Brokenhearted
Married
Would
Would-Be
Could
Like
Close
Child
Get
Get Married
Any
Refused
Them
Suffer
Her
Watch
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
Samina Baig
Women
Respective
Tell
Counterparts
Developing
Developing Countries
Powerful
Countries
Equal
Male
Role
Want
Play
Societies
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
Samina Baig
Positive
Work
Women
Opportunity
Girl
Encouragement
Mountains
Field
She
Within
Climb
Anything
Her
Need
I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
Samina Baig
Hope
Women
Will
Country
Important
Building
More
Powerful
Greater
Understand
Families
Contribution
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
Samina Baig
Women
Passion
Through
Empower
Climbing
Mountain
Reason
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
Samina Baig
Women
Our
Out
Spirit
Adventure
Come
Most
Cherished
Infuse
Them
Help
Chores
Routine
Desire
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
Samina Baig
Women
Important
Community
Society
Equal
Males
Women Are
Role
Playing
Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.
Samina Baig
Time
People
First
First Time
Climbed
Afterwards
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
Samina Baig
People
Wish
Those
Given
Come
Want
Who
Pakistan
Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.
Shahid Afridi
Indians
Kashmir
Belongs
Every child is a gift of Allah, and every child in Pakistan, to me, is like my own child, so I will do my best to take the message to every doorstep in Pakistan. Reaching every child, every time with the polio vaccine is not only necessary, but it is our duty. This disease can't deter us; we will defeat it.
Shahid Afridi
Time
Best
Me
Gift
Allah
Will
Own
Duty
Defeat
Every
Every Time
Our
Deter
My Own
Only
Take
Like
Reaching
Message
Polio
Child
Disease
Doorstep
Us
Pakistan
Necessary
Vaccine
So many mouths can get fed, so many minds can be nourished, if India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue through a Kashmiri-owned, Kashmiri-led peace process.
Shahid Afridi
Peace
Resolve
Minds
India
Fed
Through
Issue
Get
Mouths
Process
Kashmir
Nourished
Many
Peace Process
Pakistan
My daughters are very precious to me.
Shahid Afridi
Me
Daughters
Very
Precious
Ajwa and Asmara are the youngest and love to play dress-up. They have my permission to play any sport, as long as they're indoors. Cricket? No, not for my girls.
Shahid Afridi
Love
Girl
Long
Cricket
Dress-Up
Indoors
Sport
Permission
Any
Youngest
Play
In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.
Shahid Afridi
Thoughts
You
Will
Cricket
Interviews
Hundreds
TV
Memoir
TV Shows
Given
Never
Shared
Openly
Read
Years
Done
Stories
Shows
Dozens
The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.
Shahid Afridi
People
Think
Relations
India
Dirty
Had
Spoiling
Between
Like
Very
Role
May
Us
Media
I just want to be given respect and dignity that every senior player deserves after serving the country for so many years.
Shahid Afridi
Respect
Dignity
Country
Every
Given
Years
Senior
Just
So Many Years
Want
After
Many
Deserves
Player
Serving
I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.
Shahid Afridi
Me
People
Think
Observe
Very
Ground
Who
Cool
Appear
I always try to do what I know best, and that is play well.
Shahid Afridi
Best
Try
Know
Well
Always
Play
The love and support I have got and get from my well-wishers and fans is enough reward for me.
Shahid Afridi
Love
Me
Reward
Fans
Enough
Support
Got
Get
I have played 20 years of international cricket for Pakistan and not the PCB.
Shahid Afridi
Cricket
Years
International
Pakistan
Played
I've not enjoyed playing anywhere as much as I have in India.
Shahid Afridi
India
Anywhere
Much
Enjoyed
Playing
There are cricket-loving people here, much like in Pakistan. Overall, I've enjoyed a lot playing in India in my cricketing career.
Shahid Afridi
People
India
Like
Overall
Lot
Much
Pakistan
Enjoyed
Here
Playing
Career
My wife is from India, and I come to India a lot. I have never faced any security issue.
Shahid Afridi
Wife
Security
India
Faced
Never
Come
Issue
Lot
Any
I don't really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language. I don't really see any difference.
Shahid Afridi
Food
People
Speak
Language
Indians
See
Eat
Between
Same
Any
Difference
Really
Pakistani
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