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Why must we oppose India-Pakistan Cricket Series ?
Updates
- Taliban threat over Indo-Pak cricket series (25th December, 2012)
- Hockey series to follow Pakistan-India cricket ties (23rd December, 2012)
- Reply to Malik’s insults, call off Indo-Pak series (22nd December, 2012)
- Shiv Sena to protest during Indo-Pak series (22nd December, 2012)
- Pakistan cricket team leaves for India (22nd December, 2012)
Taliban threat over Indo-Pak cricket series
December 25, 2012
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Islamabad (Pakistan) : The Taliban on Saturday described the Pakistani cricket team’s tour of India as a "disgusting gesture" and held out threats of violence against India.
In a statement emailed to journalists, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said the "visit of Pakistani team to India is a disgusting gesture. Pakistan’s government is doing all this on the orders of their god America and in fear of India".
He held out a threat of violence against India. "God willing, mujahideen of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan will soon clear the debt of blood of martyrs with India".
In the statement titled ‘Forgetting the blood of Kashmiris?’, Ihsan said the Pakistani cricket team is visiting at a time when "India is the one forbidding Kashmiri Muslim nation to freedom".
Ihsan further claimed that"they (India) are also due to pay for the blood of our hero, Shaheed Ajmal Qasab".
Source : TOI
Hockey series to follow Pakistan-India cricket ties
Margashirsha Shuklapaksha 10, Kaliyug Varsha 5114
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Pakistan’s hockey team is set to follow the country’s cricket squad on a tour to India in March next year, signalling the resumption of a bilateral series between the subcontinent giants since 2006.
The second leg of the series is expected to be hosted by Pakistan in May, Hockey India Secretary General, Narinder Batra, told PTI.
“If everything goes as per plan Pakistan will tour India at the end of March next year for five Test matches. Then India will visit Pakistan in May for another five Tests,” Batra said.
The details of both the series would be sorted out in a joint meeting between Hockey India secretary general and Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Secretary General Asif Bajwa in Lahore on January 29.
“On the invitation of PHF I am going to Pakistan for a two-day trip on January 29. During the meeting we will discuss the modalities of the resumption of bilateral hockey ties between the two nations,” Batra added.
Batra and Bajwa are expected to sign an agreement on the resumption of bilateral series during the meeting.
The last Indo-Pak hockey Test series, with three matches in each country, was held in early 2006. Pakistan had won three matches, India had clinched one while two were drawn.
Source : Dawn
Reply to Malik’s insults, call off Indo-Pak series
Margashirsha Shuklapaksha 10, Kaliyug Varsha 5114
As Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde continued to play the gracious host, the BJP on Monday demanded the upcoming Indo-Pak cricket series be cancelled in retaliation to “insulting” remarks over the weekend by Abdul Rehman Malik, adviser to Pakistan’s prime minister on interior
affairs.
The BJP demand followed Shinde’s statement in Parliament where he contradicted Malik’s assertions on JuD chief Hafiz Saeed but stopped short of blaming his Pakistani counterpart for trying to mislead India and the people.
During his three-day visit, Malik had blamed New Delhi for not providing adequate evidence to nail Saeed in the 26/11 case, insisting that Islamabad had thrice arrested him but had to let him go.
Shinde told Parliament that contrary to Malik’s assertions, Saeed had never been arrested in the 26/11 case.
“Therefore, I can only say that Mr Rehman Malik appears to have been misinformed in the matter,” the home minister said in his first public remarks on Malik’s visit.
Government sources, however, pointed out that Malik — who rose from the ranks of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency to head the agency before getting into business and politics — would have been aware of the facts.
Insisting that Shinde should have never invited Malik in the first place, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said: “What kind of goodwill we are creating by playing cricket matches after Malik’s visit?”
“The Indo-Pak cricket series (commencing on December 26) should be cancelled,” he said.
Incidentally, a section within the BJP had similarly opposed the resumption of cricketing ties in March 2004 that had the support of then PM AB Vajpayee and followed the January 2004 joint statement between Vajpayee and then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraff.
Source : Hindustan Times
Shiv Sena to protest during Indo-Pak series
Margashirsha Shuklapaksha 10, Kaliyug Varsha 5114
Mumbai : Shiv Sena has expressed their displeasure over the arch-rivals touring our nation for the upcoming T20 and ODI series starting Dec 25 and has revealed that they would disrupt the action. "Balasaheb Thackeray had taken this stand that unless Pakistan stops terror activities emanating from its soil, we would continue to oppose them playing cricket in India," Senior party leader Manohar Joshi was quoted as saying by Mumbai Mirror. Earlier there were reports on the Shiv Sena chief, Balasaheb Thackeray accusing the BCCI for squeezing in another series with the arch-rivals by betraying the country for money. Pakistan cricketers are expected to reach Bangalore on Saturday evening for the first T20 on Dec 25 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, while Shiv Sena has said that it would protest at all match venues. Pakistan touring the country after five years, are looking forward to revive cricketing ties with India while BCCI has also ensured that the two countries could be on good terms earlier this year. Cricketing ties with Pakistan was stopped after the terror attacks on Mumbai in 2008.
Source : Thats Cricket
Pakistan cricket team leaves for India
Margashirsha Shuklapaksha 10, Kaliyug Varsha 5114
By Mushtaq A Subhani
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Lahore (Pakistan) : Pakistan Twenty20 team left here for India today with high hopes but apprehensions abound for its first bilateral series between the two arch rivals in five years.
A large number of cricket lovers gathered at the Allama Iqbal International Airport to see off their team with good wishes.
The team led by allrounder Mohammad Hafeez will go to Bangalore via New Delhi as the ODI team captained by Misbah-ul-Haq will leave for India after three days.
Pakistan would be looking to give their best on the brief tour which begins with a Twenty20 International at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on December 25.
The series opener would be followed by the second and last T20I at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera in Ahmedabad on December 28.
The three One-day Internationals would take place in Chennai, Kolkata and New Delhi.on December 30, January 3 and 6, respectively.
The team will reach Bangalore in the night through a chartered flight after a brief stop-over in New Delhi.
Following are the players of the Pakistan T20I team :
Mohammad Hafeez (captain), Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shahzad, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan Asad Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Zulfiqar Babar.
Source : The News International
