Jasia Akhtar, first Kashmiri girl to be selected for women IPL, said she didn’t heed to peoples advice to give up playing cricketing and lived up to her father’s expectation who reposed faith in her.

Coming from Shopian, one of the heavily terrorism infested areas in Kashmir, Jasia said job should not be the only goal and one should work hard to pursue one’s dream

She give credit to her success to her parents especially father.