{"id":5611,"date":"2023-02-28T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=284160"},"modified":"2023-02-28T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:33:23","slug":"i-was-cryingdidnt-have-indian-visa-but-former-pakistani-pacer-wasim-akram-shares-tragic-story-about-wifes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-was-cryingdidnt-have-indian-visa-but-former-pakistani-pacer-wasim-akram-shares-tragic-story-about-wifes-death\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was crying\u2026didn\u2019t have Indian visa but\u2026,\u201d Former Pakistani pacer Wasim Akram shares tragic story about wife\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wasim Akram, one of the greatest fast bowlers in cricket history, recently opened up about the tragic death of his wife Huma Akram, who died in 2009 after reportedly developing heart and kidney complications. When Akram\u2019s wife\u2019s health deteriorated, she was with the celebrated Pakistani cricketer. Huma, Akram\u2019s wife, died in Chennai at the age of 42.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the emotional incident, Akram revealed that when the ambulance arrived in Chennai, he didn\u2019t have an Indian visa.<\/p>\n<p>I was flying to Singapore with my late wife and there was a stop in Chennai for refuelling. When he landed, she was unconscious, I was crying and people recognized me at the airport. We didn\u2019t have an Indian visa. We both had Pakistani passports,\u201d Akram told\u00a0<i>Sportstar<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people at the Chennai airport, the security forces, and the customs and immigration officials told me not to worry about the visa and take my wife to the hospital while they sort the visa out. That is something I will never forget, as a cricketer and as a human being,\u201d Akram added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasim Akram, one of the greatest fast bowlers in cricket history, recently opened up about the tragic death of his\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3424,434],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-pakistan","tag-wasim-akram"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}