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Shahid Afridi distributes relief goods in Swat, Dir

By our correspondents
April 08, 2020

MINGORA/DIR: Cricket star Shahid Afridi on Tuesday paid a whirlwind visit to Swat and Upper Districts and distributed relief goods among the poor and needy people.

Officials including Malakand Division Commissioner Riaz Khan Mehsud, Deputy Commissioner Saqib Raza Aslam, Additional Deputy Commissioner Hamid Khan, Fazal Khaliq and volunteers of a welfare organisation were present on the occasion. Later, Shahid Afridi along with volunteers of the welfare organisation distributed relief items among the deserving families, affected by the ongoing lockdown owing to the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Speaking on the occasion, Shahid Afridi said that he would come again in the upcoming holy month of Ramazan and distribute relief goods among the deserving people of the district. He appealed the people to follow preventive steps so the fatal viral disease could not spread to save fellow humans from the coronavirus pandemic.

Later Shahid Afridi visited the Upper Dir aimed showing sympathy with quarantined people and distributed food items packages among daily wagers. Commissioner Malakand Division Riaz Khan Mehsud, deputy commissioner Upper Dir Khalid Iqbal Khattak and others district administration of Upper Dir officials were accompanied with him.