Legendary fast bowler Wasim Akram has claimed that airport staff at Manchester Airport UK misbehaved with him last night. The incident happened on Tuesday when one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time landed at the airport.
Akram took to Twitter to express disappointment at the incident.
Very disheartened at Manchester airport today,I travel around the world with my insulin but never have I been made to feel embarrassed.I felt very humiliated as I was rudely questioned & ordered publicly to take my insulin out of its travel cold-case & dumped in to a plastic bag pic.twitter.com/UgW6z1rkkF
— Wasim Akram (@wasimakramlive) July 23, 2019
In response to his tweet, the official twitter handle of the airport requested him to provide details of the incident via direct message and vowed to take action against the responsible officer.
Hi Wasim, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Please can you direct message us so we can look into this for you?
— Manchester Airport (@manairport) July 23, 2019
The incident has angered Wasim’s fans and people have been demanding the airport authorities to apologize to the former Pakistan captain.
https://twitter.com/Ahmed_WB/status/1153638959794315266
Strongly Condemn
Manchester Airport staff are very rude Wasim bhai..always try to avoid flying from this airport— Shahjhan Malik (She/Her) (@shahjhan_malikk) July 23, 2019
Even Indians came in support of the cricketing legend.
https://twitter.com/JysenJysen/status/1153626438303547394
Wasim Akram regularly frequently travels to the UK for the past 4 decades and has often used the Manchester Airport, especially when he used to play for Lancashire during his cricketing days.
I recently carried same brand’s Insulin injections to different destinations in Europe, security people did ask me about the injections but no one investigated or asked to put these in polythene bags.
I feel sorry for WA.
pooch lia toh kia hua. ye itna bara hai ke is se koi sawal nai karskhta kia ab. Shame on Wasim arrogant.
u must be a weila thts why u hv no respect for ur national hero
Eik average joe civilian ke sath zindagi mein kia kia hota hai un ke taraf se toh koi nai bolta aur eik celebrity ke sath kuch hojaye to poori dunya sar par utha laite hain ye log. Shame on you Hamid.
Hamare sabka PM abbasi mein tu itni himmat bhi nahin thi ke pant utarwane pe koi ehtjaj karte.
Wasim akram ke hair white hogaye lakin abhi tak is mein akal nai ayee, is ko chiye hair color laga ke hair ko dobara black kar le hahaha