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Booker-shortlisted Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid says the euphoria over the recent poll results brought back memories of Javed Miandad's winning six runs off the last ball in the 1986 Pakistan-India one-day match.
"Yes, I felt proud to be a Pakistani. Even more significant, I felt happy to be a Pakistani.
"It brought back memories of Javed Miandad's winning six off Chetan Sharma's last ball in that glorious Pakistan-India one-day match," he wrote in the Guardian.
"Suddenly, there is optimism in the air. And for a place often - and unfairly - described by the international media as the most dangerous in the world, that is revolutionary. And
Like most Pakistanis, Hamid had expected widespread rigging, riots or suicide bombings during the February 18 general election.
"Instead,
"The winners were moderate, centrist politicians - suggesting perhaps that Pakistanis, notwithstanding acres of newsprint to the contrary, are at heart a moderate centrist bunch," Hamid wrote.
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