THE TRUTH BEHIND WHY INDIA PLAYS CRICKET WITH PAKISTAN

 PEACE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF CONFLICT, IT IS THE ABILITY TO HANDLE CONFLICT BY PEACEFUL MEANS – FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, RONALD REAGAN

Countries with bilateral ties affected by tensions often make attempts to normalize relations by encouraging people-to-people ties through films, music, poetry, bilateral and multilateral political engagements and last but not least, Sports.

Known as one of the greatest rivalries in the World, India and Pakistan have tried the above means to normalize relations too. The most talked about engagement between India and Pakistan is Cricket.

Every India-Pakistan Cricket Match is viewed as a battle by people all over the world, although it is fought without rifles, hand grenades, rocket launchers, tankers and other arms and ammunition used widely in a battle. Be it the cricket stadium, or television sets, the atmosphere remains tense till the result at the end. 

India and Pakistan have been playing cricket since 1952, and there have been times when cricket relations have been abandoned due to tensions between the two test-playing nations.

Whether a fan of India-Pakistan Cricket or not, everybody wonders why the two nations do or do not play cricket together.

A more relevant question is if it is wise for India to play cricket with Pakistan.

The truth behind this has its roots in the History of the Underworld in Mumbai, Karachi and Dubai.

Ever since the Mumbai Underworld came into existence, it intimidated the Elites of India, particularly those who lived in Mumbai and extorted money from them.

When the Elites came to terms with the reality that they had to co-exist with the Underworld, the relations graduated from one-sided love for Mumbai Elites' money by The Mumbai Underworld to the Elites' dependence on The Mumbai Underworld to stash their black money to Swiss Banks and Banks of Other Tax Havens - A One-Sided Crush becoming Two-Sided Full Fledged Love Story.

The money travelled through Mumbai, Karachi and Dubai ports to finally make its way to the Tax Havens of Europe.

The time that passed became witness to sophistication in Technology, the growth of Electronic Media along with the birth of social media promoting a rise in awareness among people, the Government with one ideology succeeding the government of the other ideology, and all of this delivered changing narratives in public discourse as the end-result.

The India after 2014 is different. Whether rich or super rich, you cannot make black money today.

Sending it to Tax Havens is next to impossible.

The Current Government is making India a favorable destination for investments and is perceived as business-friendly.

 

The Indian Elites (particularly of Mumbai) do not maintain the same relations with the Underworld now as they did before 2014. 

The Underworld, who helped park the Elites' money abroad before 2014, are now powerless, but the former still carries a lot of secrets of the elites.

Today, under the pressure of the Elites, BCCI has to ensure that India plays against Pakistan in Multilateral Cricket tournaments.

The current leaders, as they want to maintain India's image before the world, cannot afford to get the Mumbai Elites to earn a bad name, or else no Foreign Company would like to work with them, which may end up puncturing India's ambition to become an Economic Giant like China.

They have ensured that the gloom of the past does not affect the present, but they cannot travel back to the past to correct the same.

Previous Governments did not work with malafide intentions either, but they lacked the zero tolerance for corruption that the Current Government has.

But the story does not end here.

What about us? Can we, the people, do anything about this?

The answer is yes. We, the People of India, can boycott India-Pakistan Cricket. My readers would be wondering why?

The truth is that any Multilateral Tournament Match that India plays against Pakistan generates money for both. The BCCI and PCB earn money.

While BCCI uses it's share of money for the betterment of Indian Cricket, PCB sends it's share of money to the Pakistani Government run by the Coalition of Terror Groups like Jamaat-Ud-Dawa, Harqat-Ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-E-Tayeba, Haqqani Network, Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan, and many more Terror Groups ruling over the Pakistani Parties liken PTI, PMLN, PPP and the whole of Pakistani population.

The money given to Pakistan, whether by India-Pakistan Cricket Matches, India-Pakistan Cultural Exchanges other than Cricket, Foreign Aide, etc., is funneled to the Coalition mentioned above and used to kill Indians using Terrorist Attacks as a medium.

The terror attacks on Indians have reduced drastically due to the valor of the Indian Security Forces. This is something no Indian can disagree with.

But any Indian should not forget that thousands of Security Personnel have sacrificed their lives for us.

If an average Indian checks the Newspaper Archives, they would come across the news of the mutilation of Indian Security Personnel at the hands of Pakistani Forces.

Any Indian watching the India-Pakistan Match would unknowingly be insulting the sacrifices of our Security Personnel.

 Indians watching India-Pakistan Cricket would also be an insult to the Indian Security Personnel protecting India at the border.

If we are so much in love with those who want to kill us, then why do we send our security forces to the border to protect us in inhuman conditions?

Our brave soldiers face Temperatures above 50°C to Temperatures below -60°C.

They do not protect us for salary but for their love for the Motherland.

Had they wanted money, they could have become Politicians like those who live in India but defend Pakistan.

When we watch India-Pakistan Cricket we also insult our brave soldiers who are alive and face inhuman conditions for us.

We also insult our civilian brothers and sisters who died in terrorist attacks so far.

My fellow Indians, make no mistake, the Coalition of Pakistani Terror Groups are preparing to attack us every hour, minute and second of the day.

Our Brave Security Personnel are the only reason terror attacks cannot kill us.

We should learn to respect our armed forces, our motherland, and keep our self-respect above our hunger for a few hours of entertainment.

-          - TheOptimisticJournalist