{"id":95101,"date":"2024-12-17T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=95101"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:46:01","slug":"shahid-afridi-becomes-grandfather-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/95101\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahid Afridi becomes grandfather for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi&#8217;s eldest daughter Aqsa Afridi gave birth to her first child on Tuesday.\u00a0 Taking to his Instagram account, Afridi shared the blessed news with his fans, saying: &#8220;Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed Aqsa &amp; Naseer with beautiful Ayra.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Daughters are the purest reflection of His mercy and the most precious blessing. Keep us in your prayers,&#8221; wrote the former cricketer as he expressed the joy of becoming a grandparent for the second time.\u00a0 Afridi also posted a sweet picture of the newborn baby&#8217;s tiny feet placed in the parents&#8217; hands.\u00a0Aqsa was married to Naseer in December 2022 in an intimate\u00a0<em>nikah\u00a0<\/em>ceremony, with the rukhsati (an event when the bride officially moves to her husband&#8217;s house) taking place next year.\u00a0 &#8220;Meri pyari beti- it seems like yesterday when I cradled you in my arms &#8211; and on that day, I promised myself I would never leave your side. Although you\u2019re about to begin a new chapter in your life, you\u2019ll always have my heart because I\u2019m the man who loved you first,&#8221; Afridi had written for his daughter.\u00a0 &#8220;May Allah keep you both under His Divine protection and give you the chance to create a beautiful life together. Ameen,&#8221; he wrote. Earlier in August, Afridi&#8217;s second daughter Ansha and fast bowler\u00a0Shaheen Shah Afridi welcomed their\u00a0first child, a baby boy, named Ali Yar.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi&#8217;s eldest daughter Aqsa Afridi gave birth to her first child on Tuesday.\u00a0 Taking to his Instagram account, Afridi shared the blessed news with his fans, saying: &#8220;Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed Aqsa &amp; Naseer with beautiful Ayra.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Daughters are the purest reflection of His mercy and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shahid Afridi becomes grandfather for second time - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/95101\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shahid Afridi becomes grandfather for second time - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan(National Times)- Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi&#8217;s eldest daughter Aqsa Afridi gave birth to her first child on Tuesday.\u00a0 Taking to his Instagram account, Afridi shared the blessed news with his fans, saying: &#8220;Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed Aqsa &amp; 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