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Pakistan call off India tour
ISLAMABAD, Oct IT: Pakistan
calls* off their cricket lour of India today be cause of threats
by Hindu mtiltanls to .aboiage the one-day series due to start this week, report* Reuter
These are very special and unusual circumstances. Our boys would hwre been under real pressure and not able lo a a* normal'. »ald Shahid secretary of the Board for Control of Cricket in Pakistan (BCCI1
While Hindu militant* wert isauing only threat*. Rall *aid Pakistan was prepared to go ahead with the five match tour.
But the BCCP was forced to think again following damage to Bombay* Wankhcde Stadium pilch hurt week and communal riot* after l*akl*tan beat India in the final of a tri angular one day tournament tn Sharjah on Friday
India frequently accuse* Pakistan on backing Independence campaigns tn l*unjab and India ruled Kashmir Islamabad denies the charges
The first match of the series was due lo played in Madras on Wednesday, but two Hindu student groups warned on Saturday they would not let the game go ahead.
"Pakistan Is aiding and abetting terrorists in India and their cricket team s tour of thto country should be immediately scrapped", they said In
Militant Hindu Shiv Sena leaders tn India's northern Punjab state also called for a boycott of a match planned for November 6 in Jalandhar because Pakistan was aiding Sikh gunmen. It said.
The BCCP was wry unhappy al calling off an important lour in the run-up to the World Cup In Australia and New Zealand next February and March but felt it had no option, Rafi said.
Tt will certainly affect us and our training. Wc thought this would be good exposure for some of the young players.''
Even if condition* calmed down in India. Raft said there was now no chance of rescheduling the tour until after the World Cup.
AP adds: Tension between Hindu majority India and Islamic Pakistan run* deep. The traditional antagonists have fought three wars— in 1948. 1965 and 1971— since they were freed of British colonial rule 44 years ago.
"A match between Pakistan and India fa not just a game of cricket," said Pakistan's Sports Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed. Tt to steeped in more
than four decades of competition and resentment."
"Muslim blood cannot be sacrificed for a game of cricket," Ahmed said.
An earlier report from New Delhi said: Militant Hindus who provoked cancellation of one India-Pakistan cricket match first, threatened on Saturday to disrupt another if
the five-match scries of one-day internationals was not called off. reports Reuter.
Two Hindu student groups — Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and 1 llndu Munnani — issued a joint statement in the southern city of Madras demanding cancellfiUoa of the Pakistan teanib u>ur4tcr 1 ticised tuc Government and the Indian Cricket Board for allowing a
team from Pakistan lo play in the country.
"We will not allow the Pakistan cricket team lo play in Madras." the statement said.
Police were guarding the pilch and regulating entry into the stadium In Madras, where the first match of the rescheduled scries is to be held on October 30.