KARACHI: Pakistan’s star allrounder Shahid Afridi has agreed to campaign to get Pakistanis out to vote in the upcoming election scheduled to be held on May 11.
Afridi, who had led media drives urging parents to vaccinate children against polio, said the election commission had asked him to get involved.
“The commission has invited me to play my part and stress to the public the importance of casting their votes and I am going to participate in the campaign,” Afridi told AFP.
The 33-year-old denied he was joining any political party after reports circulated in local media that he was becoming a member of former premier Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
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