Pakistan cricket legend Shahid Afridi said Friday he is planning a Twenty20 match to raise money for almost half a million people displaced by a military operation in the country's northwest. <br />More than 470,000 have fled the offensive against strongholds of the Taliban and other militants in North Waziristan tribal area on the Afghan border. <br />Aid efforts have been stepped up to cope with the exodus and Afridi, who was born in Pakistan's tribal areas, said he wanted to help. <br />"I am in talks with the authorities and will soon announce a Twenty20 match in Lahore to raise funds," the big-hitting allrounder told reporters. <br />The 34-year-old was speaking at the launch of his charity foundation which will focus on mothers and internal refugees. <br />Afridi said the foundation had set up a 16-bed maternity hospital in remote Tangi Banda village in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. <br />"I want to return to my country what it has given me and with an aim to serve my people," he said.
