It’s not cricket
It is hapless that Pakistan and a cricket house have been penalised by Afghanistan as partial of a fallout from Wednesday’s large bombing in a Afghan collateral that left during slightest 80 people passed and hundreds some-more injured, including Pakistani diplomats. One maybe can know a fury and pain that a Afghans feel over such lethal attacks though what is reduction distinct is a approach in that Pakistan is customarily hold obliged for a actions of a Afghan Taliban and a Haqqani Network by extension. Such dispatch can usually meant one thing: Kabul is reluctant to face adult to a shortcomings of a possess confidence army and their inability to relieve a Taliban insurgency.
Now selecting to go over a common rhetoric, a Afghans have started also to hillside or correct agreements with their neighbours. And cricket of all things has been done a victim. Just final week a dual countries’ cricket play had struck an agreement to play dual accessible T20 matches in Lahore and Kabul though now in a arise of a Kabul bombing, a Afghan authorities have scrapped a devise altogether. In typical circumstances, it would not matter a jot either Afghanistan toured or even played a inhabitant group — for several reasons, slightest of all since it hasn’t utterly perceived Test-playing standing yet. But a siege that was forced on Pakistan following a 2009 conflict on a furloughed Sri Lankan cricketers has altered a equation.
The Afghan house had most to benefit from a agreement since a PCB was to yield Afghanistan with venues for training and conditioning camps in further to a informal exposure. And a final prerogative from a shared agreement was a probability of reciprocal tours between a dual teams. The T20 games were drawn adult with a aim of easing tensions between a dual neighbours. And now even that possibility is lost.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 2nd, 2017.
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