ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa congratulated Islamabad United, the winning team of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) third season, Sunday night on emerging as "the champions".
According to a Twitter post by Major General Asif Ghafoor, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), General Qamar Javed Bajwa praised Karachiites alongside the winning team for their excitement and discipline.
“Congrats to Islamabad United ‘the champions’. Pakistan won today! Best of the day was excited yet very disciplined spectators of Karachi. Nothing can defeat our national passion,” the DG ISPR quoted General Bajwa as saying.
Earlier, Asif Ghafoor had noted how the "PSL final brings more glitters to ‘City of Lights’", and thanked all officials involved in the PSL as well as the security and audience.
“PSL Final brings more glitters to ‘City of Lights’. Thanks to PCB, foreign players, govt administration, security apparatus and the resilient Pakistanis. Terrorism imposed on us is on the way out; we are on the way to our rightful destination of enduring peace and stability, IA,” he said.
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