Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is ready to eat grass if it helps in increasing the country's defense budget. Akhtar talked about making the budget of the Pakistan army triple than what it is now. 

Speaking in an interview with ARY News, he also mentioned about the air-strike from India. This is not the first time he is making comments over the top. "If Allah ever gives me the authority, I will eat grass myself but I will increase the budget of the army," said Akhtar in an interview with ARY News.

Adding more to it, he said, "I will ask my army chief to sit with me and make decisions. If the budget is 20 percent, I will make it 60 percent. If we insult each other, the loss is ours only."

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Recently, Akhtar had spoken about giving up his lucrative contract for Nottinghamshire to fight Kargil War for Pakistan. “I had a 175,000-pound contract with Nottingham. Then in 2002, I had another big contract. I left both when Kargil happened,” Akhtar was quoted as saying by ARY News.

“I stood on the outskirts of Lahore. A general asked me what I’m doing there. I said war is about to start and we’ll die together. I left county [cricket] twice like this and the counties were shocked. I wasn’t concerned about that. I called up my friends in Kashmir and told them I am ready to fight.

“When the planes (from India) came and downed some of our trees, that was a big loss for us. They dropped 6-7 trees and we are really putting a lot of focus on trees now. I was very hurt about this. I was feeling dizzy when I woke up that day and my wife told me to calm down. But until the next day when I saw the news, that continued. I know the inside story of what happened on the next day, I’m from Rawalpindi and I know GHQ.”