Former Home Secretary and MP from Bihar’s Arrah, RK Singh on Monday opposed the proposed India-Pakistan cricket series in December.
Raising the issue in the lok Sabha during the Zero Hour, he questioned the logic behind playing cricket with a country “giving shelter to terrorists, who have attacked and carried out bomb blasts against us”. Singh said at a time when terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed is roaming freely in Pakistan and another terrorist Zaki-ur Rehman lakhvi has been granted fresh bail, “what is point of playing cricket with them...I do not understand.”
The Government should not hold such a cricket series or “reconsider” any decision on the matter as Home Minister Rajnath Singh has informed the House that Mumbai serial blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim has been given shelter in Pakistan, he said while speaking during the Zero hour.
India and Pakistan cricket board chiefs met in Kolkata on Sunday and said that the series would likely comprise three tests, five one-day internationals and two T-20 games. If the cricket series happens between the two neighbours that would be almost after a decade.