Zainab Abbas reportedly leaves India mid-world cup over security reasons

Pakistani sports presenter Zainab Abbas has reportedly left the ICC World Cup in India and reached Dubai as pressure grew over a case filed against her.

Sources said that Abbas has been in Dubai for the past two days after she was reportedly given a safe passage by the ICC. Although, some in Indian media had claimed that Abbas was deported, sources confirmed that she had left of her own accord.

An Indian lawyer named Vineet Jindal had announced that he had filed a case against Abbas with Delhi’s cyber cell over ‘anti-hindu’ tweets posted from her account on Twitter (now X) years ago.

The account’s handle was ‘Zainablovesrk’ when the tweets were posted and has since been changed to ‘ZAbbasOfficial’.

The lawyer had demanded that she should be removed from the panel of presenters over her ‘derogatory’ posts.

The news had come on October 5, just as the cricket world cup was about to begin in India.

Zainab Abbas is a renowned presenter who has been a regular at major ICC tournaments for years.