Sunday, October 25, 2009
Wife of Pakistan great Wasim Akram dies in India
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NEW DELHI: The wife of Pakistani bowling legend Wasim Akram died in an Indian hospital on Sunday after heart and kidney complications, the Press Trust of India reported.
Huma Akram, 42, was admitted to hospital in Chennai last Tuesday on October 20 in an emergency situation, suffering from a fever. The air ambulance carrying her from Lahore to Singapore had stopped in Chennai for refuelling whenher condition worsened.
Wasim Akram, a former Pakistan captain, was at her bedside for the last five days. The couple had two children.
Arrangements are being made to fly her body back to Pakistan, hospital sources told local media.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt and chief operating officer Wasim Bari expressed the PCB's grief.
“We are with Wasim and his family at this hour of need and pray to God to give them strength to bear this great and irreparable loss,'' PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said a statement.
“All the management of PCB and fellow cricketers have also extended their condolences and prayed eternal peace for the departed soul.''
PML (N) leaders Mian Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif, and former captain and cricket legend Imran Khan also expressed deep sorrow over the death of Wasim’s wife.
Among former and present players, who condoled the death, are Shahid Afridi, Ijaz Ahmed, Aamer Sohail, Rashid Lateef, Basit Ali and other cricketers.
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