{"id":91478,"date":"2025-03-10T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/javeria-saud-shuts-down-critic-questioning-sarfaraz-ahmeds-english-speaking-skills-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:55:07","slug":"javeria-saud-shuts-down-critic-questioning-sarfaraz-ahmeds-english-speaking-skills-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/javeria-saud-shuts-down-critic-questioning-sarfaraz-ahmeds-english-speaking-skills-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Javeria Saud shuts down critic questioning Sarfaraz Ahmed\u2019s English\u00a0speaking\u00a0skills | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"flex items-center text-center\"><figcaption class=\"text-3 font-sans uppercase mr-3 whitespace-no-wrap\"><span class=\"ls-art\">Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article<\/span><\/figcaption><audio class=\"h-5 w-60 sm:w-80 rounded-none\" preload=\"metadata\" controlslist=\"noplaybackrate nodownload\" id=\"tts\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/attachments\/speech_20250310154525832-BG4rF.mp3\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During a recent episode of Express TV&#8217;s <em>Piyara Ramadan<\/em>, host Javeria Saud delivered a strong response to a caller who questioned former Pakistan cricket captain Sarfaraz Ahmed&#8217;s English-speaking skills.<\/p>\n<p>The question was raised by a caller from Karachi, who asked Ahmed why he seemed to get nervous when speaking in English. &#8220;I\u2019ve seen several of your interviews where you seem uncomfortable speaking English,&#8221; the caller remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed, laughing off the comment, responded by saying, &#8220;Everyone gets nervous in front of the camera and sometimes forgets their words. We play cricket, and we&#8217;re used to speaking in our native language, so speaking in another language can be difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The host swiftly chimed in with her own perspective, saying, &#8220;Since we are Pakistanis, and I too get nervous, our national and mother tongue is Urdu. We should learn to speak Urdu properly before worrying about speaking English, as we often make mistakes in Urdu itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;Speaking English is not a matter of pride. If you go to Spain, Paris, Italy, China, Japan, or Turkey, people often get annoyed with those speaking English and insist on communicating in their language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Javeria emphasised the importance of being proud of one&#8217;s own culture and language, stating, &#8220;The problem is that we try to imitate others and forget our own way.&#8221; She concluded by dismissing the question as trivial, saying, &#8220;Instead of focusing on such nonsense, we should focus on supporting our heroes and encouraging them further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article During a recent episode of Express TV&#8217;s Piyara Ramadan, host Javeria Saud delivered a strong response to a caller who questioned former Pakistan cricket captain Sarfaraz Ahmed&#8217;s English-speaking skills. The question was raised by a caller from Karachi, who asked Ahmed why he seemed to get nervous when speaking in English. &#8220;I\u2019ve seen several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/javera1741621057-0\/javera1741621057-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}