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Imran Khan wants free tickets for fans in the enclosure after his name

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan urged Pakistan Super League management to provide free tickets to his fans in an eponymous enclosure named after him at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.

“Every Pakistani wants to enjoy the tournament in the stadium,” Khan said, “It is quite unfair to have tickets priced at Rs12,000 with cricket being played in Pakistan after such a long time. This is injustice with cricket fans.”

Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium is divided into sections named after prolific former Pakistan cricket team players including Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and other legends.

Earlier on Thursday, PTI chief had said that holding a cricket match in a curfew-like environment would have an adverse impact on the country’s image.

“If any adverse incident occurs on the day of the final, it would prove to be the end of international cricket in Pakistan,” Khan said.

“Under such monumental security arrangements, matches can even be held in Iraq and Syria,” he had earlier remarked.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.