Later this year, Pakistan’s national cricket team will visit India for a much-awaited Cricket World Cup encounter. The game is slated to take place on October 15 at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, which is named after the current prime minister of India.
Political tensions between the two nations have escalated into military combat, and their diplomatic and political ties have remained chilly.
India and Pakistan will Compete
Every four years, the Cricket World Cup is played in front of millions of viewers. The two nations have given the game some of its greatest players, some of whom have become deities in their own countries.
With some politicians advocating that politics should stay out of cricket and others stating that two countries should avoid sending teams to compete in any venue, cricket has helped to reduce tension between the two bitter rivals.
- Pakistan’s cricket team to play World Cup in Ahmedabad.
- Cricket reduces tension between rivals, and politics avoid competition.
- Pakistan’s PM proposes peace negotiations with India, but Modi refuses.
India and Pakistan haven’t had any meaningful peace negotiations in years, but tensions rose following a terrorist strike in Indian-controlled Kashmir in 2019.
Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, proposed holding peace negotiations with India to settle the differences, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration in India has refused to do so, claiming that Pakistan is a “sponsor” of transnational terrorism.
Political hostility makes it unclear at this time if the Pakistani government will authorize the Pakistani cricket team’s trip to India.
