Dhawan, Sehwag slam Pakistan for attacking India hours after ceasefire agreement: 'Ghatiya desh ne fir...'

Indian cricket legends Virender Sehwag and Shikhar Dhawan tore into Pakistan after explosions were heard in Srinagar and drones were spotted along India’s northern and western borders hours after New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday. While Sehwag quoted an old Hindi idiom comparing Pakistan to a dog’s tail, Dhawan described India’s neighbours to the west as a “ghatiya desh” following the ceasefire violation .

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“Ghatiya desh ne fir apna ghatiyapan poori duniya ke aage dikha diya (A substandard country showed its substandard behaviour to the entire world once again),” Dhawan, who has also engaged in a war of words with former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi, wrote on X on Saturday.

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Ghatiya desh ne fir apna ghatiyapan poori duniya ke aage dikha diya. #Pakistan#Ceasefire

— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) May 10, 2025

“Kutte ki dum tedi ki tedi hi rehti hai (a dog’s tail remains crooked no matter what),” Sehwag wrote on the micro-blogging platform.

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— Virrender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) May 10, 2025

Some of India’s biggest names in sport including cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as well as javelin icon Neeraj Chopra, badminton star PV Sindhu and ace boxer Nikhat Zareen have hailed the Indian armed forces for taking action against terror and for responding to Pakistan’s repeated hostilities.

India had agreed to a ceasefire initiated by the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government and mediated by US President Donald Trump that would have both countries halting all military action from 5 pm on Saturday.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, however, reported explosions in Srinagar hours after the ceasefire agreement, with drones also being spotted in Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat, resulting in blackouts in the states bordering Pakistan.

This was after three days of hostilities between the armed forces of the two nuclear-armed nations that began with ‘Operation Sindoor’ – India’s military response to the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

The Indian armed forces struck multiple terror camps with Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) on the first day of hostilities before targeting the neighbouring country’s air defence and radar system at multiple locations, neutralising Lahore completely in the process.