Pakistan’s former fast bowler Wasim Akram has recalled an emotional tale from 2009, involving his late wife Huma Akram.
Sharing an story, Wasim Akram said he was flying to Singapore and his wife Huma Akram, who died in a hospital in India’s Chennai in October, after reportedly developing heart and kidney complications, was unconscious when the flight halted at the Chennai airport for scheduled refuelling.
He revealed how the officials in Chennai helped him to take his wife to the hospital despite not having an Indian visa. “I was flying to Singapore with my late wife and there was a stop in Chennai for refuelling,” Akram sahared during a discussion on his autobiography Sultan: A Memoir.
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He added, “When landed, she was unconscious, I was crying and people recognised me at the airport.” He further added, “We didn’t have an Indian visa. We both had Pakistani passports.”
“The 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,” he revealed.
