A senior Indian cricket official Rajeev Shukla has insisted that the planned bilateral series between Pakistan and India in December was still on and not derailed.
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Earlier this week, dozens of activists of the group attacked BCCI’s head office in Mumbai when Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Sharyar Khan was there to hold talks with Indian board’s officials over a proposed series in United Arab Emirates.
While talking to Dunya News on “Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Saath”, Najam Sethi had revealed that chairmen of the Indian and Pakistani cricket boards were not the ones playing the game; it were the wives of the two chairmen who were doing the diplomacy behind the doors.
Khan has already written to Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif outlining the situation and he acknowledges the consequences of pulling out of next year’s ICC tournament.
Shaharyar said: “My own feeling is that we will have to go to our government and talk to them”.
He added: ‘You have seen the conditions there. That is what I sense because of the uncertain situation for a Pakistani in India. In this environment, how can we say? “This was the inducement to us to drop our opposition and for the ICC to have a unanimous agreement”, Shahryar Khan said. “And when you close the doors to art you open up a door for dark and unwanted things to come in”, he told Times Of India.
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Thousands of Indians from Kerala to Kashmir and Pakistanis from Lahore to Karachi are changing their profile pictures to one with a little love note scribble that says where they are from, that they don’t hate each other, and are only being divided by hate politics.
