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Delhi okays Pak tour despite Shiv Sena threats
NEW DELHI. Oct 22 : The Indian government today announced clearance of a tour of India by Pakistani
cricketers, apparently ignoring attempted sabotage and threats by a powerful Hindu group tn Bombay against the visit, report* AFP
A 19-member Pakistani team would play one-day matches In Bombay. Delhi. Madras. Calcutta and Jalandhar, a government press release here said.
In Bombay Bal Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (Lord Shiva's Army), Tuesday called for a general strike next week to sabotage the match between Pakistan and India to be played in the western metropolis.
Within hours of his strike call 15 vandals’ dug up Bombay's Wankhede Stadium cricket pitch where the match
is to take place and emptied a can of oil on tt They then gave themselves up to police. Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
PTI described the damage to the pitch as not extensive.
Thackeray said hi* party would enforce the strike in Bombay October 28. the day ol the scheduled match there, to protest Pakistan's alleged backing to Moslem separatist* tn Kashmir.
"It is against national interest and Insulting for the country to play cricket with Pakistan when that country is providing aid to Kashmir mill tanta." PTI quoted him as saying.
He said the strike would be peaceful, but Shiv Sena activists "will not allow, Pakistani players to touch India when Pakistan has adopted an anti-India attitude."
The ShN Sena is a powerful political forced in the western state of Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital. It has thousands of members
The ball Is now In the gov-ernments court." said Thackeray. w!k> has previously threatened to burn down the Wankhede Stadium if the authorities went ahead with the match.
India accuses Pakistan, with which it has fought three wars, of arming Moslem militants fighting to secede Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority slate In India. Islamabad denies the charge but supports the homeland campaign
Bal Mahaddalkar, Joint honorary secretary of the Bombay Cricket Association, told PT that lie and other as sociation officials had received threatening phone calls and had sought police protection.