India Pakistan to Play cricket in December

[Daredevil]

It seems India Pakistan will play 3 ODIs in India and BCCI & PCB agreed to this principally. More details awaited.

 

[Blackwater]

Cash stripped pakistan begged and managed cricket series from India

NEW DEHLI: Cricketing ties between Pakistan and India have resumed as Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) has announced that the Pakistan team will tour India in December this year to play three one-day internationals (ODIs), Geo News reported.

According to the Indian media, the BCCI has agreed in principle to invite the Pakistan cricket team. The bilateral series will be the first after five years severed after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

The report about the series comes after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) put forward three proposals to their Indian counterparts in a bid to resume bilateral cricket ties between India and Pakistan.

The PCB proposed that either India could tour Pakistan or play them in a neutral venue. The third proposal was PCB hosting their home series in India.

The process received the boost in early July when the foreign secretaries of the two countries decided to promote the sporting contacts. The joint statement issued after the two-day talks stated: "The Foreign Secretaries also emphasized the need to promote media and sports contacts".

Also, PCB chief Zaka Ashraf had several meetings with BCCI President N Srinivasan during the last several months.

The BCCI has also invited Pakistan's national T20 champion Sialkot Stallions to participate in the Qualifying Tournament of Champions League Twenty20 to be held in South Africa later this year.

While commenting on the development Zaka Ashraf said that the two boards and governments were working hard to normalise the situation and now the ties between the two countries are much better than before.

BCCI announcement

The Indian cricket board issud the following statement today regarding Pakistan-India series.

The Working Committee of the BCCI met in Delhi earlier today. Several key issues were discussed.

It was decided to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan by inviting the Pakistan cricket team for a short series in December 2012 - January 2013. The modalities will be worked out shortly.


Pakistan-India cricket ties resume - geo.tv

 

[Indian_Baba]

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appeal to all indian....show your anger where ever possible facebook,twitter etc.
All contrymen should run a massive campain to boycott this series. Let this traitor GOI know the mood of indians.

26/11................Never forget........Never forgive

 

[Indian_Baba]

Re: Breaking: India Pakistan to Play cricket in December

appeal to all indian....show your anger where ever possible facebook,twitter etc.
All contrymen should run a massive campain to boycott this series. Let this traitor GOI know the mood of indians.

26/11................Never forget........Never forgive

 

[Apollyon]

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why the fuk we wanna play pakis ...we should end all our relationship, diplomatic and economic and pretend there's no country such as Pakistan and kill ever Jihadi crossing LOC mercilessly


Pakistan cricket team to tour India in December - The Times of India

although it has not been yet approved by Indian Government, think they have just let the news to see the public and political reaction

 

[rock127]

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How can we play with Terrorists and Match Fixers aka Pakis?

Govt ka dimag kharab ho gaya hai.... this govt want to lose elections in a hurry... is this some crappy "Aman ki Asha"?

 

[Daredevil]

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Gavaskar slams BCCI for hosting Pakistan

Sunil Gavaskar has come down hard on the BCCI's decision to revive bilateral ties with Pakistan, claiming that the short limited-overs series in December-January was in poor taste considering Pakistan's non-cooperation in the Mumbai terror attacks probe.
"Being a Mumbaikar I feel what is the urgency when there is no co-operation from the other side," said Gavaskar

 

[mayfair]

It will be a shameful moment when this series is allowed to go ahead uncontested, unopposed.

Bloody tosspots.

 

[rock127]

Pak Cricket is bankrupt and playing with India would raise huge money by betting...... no wonder that they would use it for terrorist activities as usual.

Dawood would put loads of betting on the India-Pak series.

 

[devgupt]

Should sports and politics mixed?
Always no, but practically there comes a moment when it needs to.South Africa is a prime example, they were banned because of apartheid.
India which is the prime victim of Pak sponsered terrorism has a moral reason to shun Pakistani sports.
This tour doesnt make sense even from Cricket's POV.England is currently ranked no1 in both Test & T20 and just one point away from becoming no 1 in ODI's.Sandwiching this tour between England's tour will ensure that our players will be jaded when they meet England during second half of tour
F*** O** GOI , BCCI

 

[parijataka]

Pakistan to play 3 matches in India

A good article on govt decision to allow Pakis to play cricket in India. Even when a guy like Jundal has told that ISI uses cricket matches to scope cities in India for terror attacks.

Indo-Pak cricket: Why does India keep giving when Pak just takes

By Seema Sirohi

Washington: Is India slowly replacing the United States in the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan where it humours the spoilt child with rewards without demanding accountability for bad behaviour? Ironically, just when Washington and other capitals are finally tightening the screws on Islamabad, New Delhi is finding excess generosity in its heart.

In the wake of what should now be termed an extremely successful visit — from Pakistan's point of view — by Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani, India will resume cricketing ties and may lift the ban on Pakistani television channels. Both significant concessions and both made in the absence of any tangible positive moves from Islamabad.

This when Jilani and subsequently Pakistan's ambassador to India, Salman Bashir, basically threw mud in India's face and rubbished the evidence of ISI's involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Bashir said on Karan Thapar's show that it was "unbelievable" and "incredible" for India to say that Pakistani state agencies were involved in the attacks when Pakistani military's headquarters and ISI offices have been attacked by terrorists.

I don't see why both can't be true or how one precludes the other. But logic clearly hasn't been Pakistan's strongest suit. After all, it has been working steadily towards its own destruction.


By all means, give when you get something in return. Strengthen democratic forces within Pakistan but not by unilateral disarmament. AFP
Pakistani diplomats are said to be skilled at their craft and they certainly are. For ten years they took billions of dollars in American money while their terrorist proxies killed American soldiers. But why is India falling into the trap it has clearly seen others dive in over decades?

By all means, give when you get something in return. Strengthen democratic forces within Pakistan but not by unilateral disarmament. The proxy war against India hasn't been called off — not a single meaningful gesture has been made to show the official mindset has changed. The atmosphere may have improved around the edges but a nation's business can't be conducted on the basis of atmospherics.

The last round of excitement in Indo-Pak saga was generated by Pakistan's supposed granting of Most Favoured Nation status to India, 16 years too late but never mind. The initial announcement came in November last year but it has remained an announcement so far.

Now India is willing to resume cricketing ties, surely the mother of all excitement. Remember 2005 when hundreds of Pakistani fans came across the border and partook of the joy that only an India-Pakistan match can generate? Here is a grim detail — among the fans were 14 people who never went back to Pakistan and were never found. They are probably scouting sites, recruiting people, creating cells and blending in.

Sajid Mir, a key planner of the Mumbai attacks, and one Major Abdur Rehman apparently came as innocent cricket fans in 2005 and went around scoping Delhi and Mumbai for nearly two weeks, according to Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, one of the plotters of Mumbai who is being interrogated by India after his extradition from Saudi Arabia. This is a year before David Headley began making his trips to India. Can Indian officials ensure the next batch of attackers doesn't sneak in as we begin the new round of cricket diplomacy?

Now for the other concession — not yet made but being looked at favourably by the Indian government. Jilani seems to have successfully argued that India should remove its ban on PTV and private channels. Alas, this is an idea whose time has not yet come. The demand from Pakistan has been on the table for several years but in the past wiser counsel prevailed.

So what makes Indian policy makers suddenly so sanguine about hate speech and anti-India propaganda that are regular fare on some Pakistani channels? Anyone who has watched Mubashir Luqman or Zaid Hamid talk casually about annihilating India with nuclear weapons (and Israel and the US) would know what I am referring to. Hamid's solution to all Indo-Pak problems is to take over India with his "lashkars" and create one large country called Pakistan. Here are a couple of samples:

Do we really need this kind of onslaught? Do we really need to unleash Hafiz Saeed, a certified terrorist leader who has eased himself into Pakistan's political discourse while the generals have watched, into millions of Indian homes? That too legitimately by signing an agreement? This will be a confidence building measure — but only for Pakistan.

In the past, district commissioner of Jammu has ordered cable operators to stop distributing Pakistani channels, including ARY and Geo, because of the intense anti-India propaganda. In Punjab, people in border villages have alerted the Indian army and visiting reporters about demonisation of India on PTV, a channel they watched because the Doordarshan signal was too weak.

May be there is some deep "Chanakya neeti" involved in the latest concessions or just latent idealism. I, for one, don't get it. For the record, I want good relations with Pakistan but as Bashir said: It takes two to tango. Sadly, Pakistan's tango is with terrorism. And the music there has died

 

[Ray]

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Pakistan has rejected their own judicial commission on 26/11.

We must be like Manmohan Singh.

Must bend over!

 

[pmaitra]

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New Delhi—Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar on Monday criticised the BCCI's decision to revive the Indo-Pak bilateral cricket ties as he felt Pakistan was not cooperating in the Mumbai terror attacks probe.

Gavaskar criticises BCCI’s decision to resume ties with Pak

 

[mayfair]

I will boycott this blood tainted series and any news associated with it.