Champions Trophy Mein Shirkat Ke Liye Bharat Ke Bahanay Jari.
Champions Trophy Mein Shirkat Ke Liye Bharat Ke Bahanay Jari.
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00:00The issue is the same as it was in the Asia Cup, but they say it was an ACC event and this is an ICC event.
00:07Do you think it will make a difference?
00:11No, it won't make any difference.
00:13The reason is that this is a part of the basic policy of the BJP, the Indian People's Party.
00:27The policy is to isolate Pakistan from the world, politically and wherever possible.
00:37Cricket is a very important sport and it is very popular in both the countries.
00:46However, the international policy of sports, especially in the Olympics and other events,
00:54is that sports and politics should be separate.
00:58Sports should be played and politics should be politics.
01:01But it is very unfortunate that India uses cricket as a weapon to isolate Pakistan.
01:11As long as the current government is in India, their policy and thinking will not change.
01:20Whether it is the Asia Cup or the Champions Trophy, I don't see any change in it.
01:29Mohsin Naqvi is a strong chairman of the PCB, but is he strong enough to convince India to come to Pakistan?
01:41No, I don't think so.
01:43The cricketing bodies, especially the founding members of England and Australia,
01:53including New Zealand, I haven't seen them in any way in the past.
02:02The bodies are not the same, they keep changing.
02:07They have nothing to do with it, so I think they will have to make a relationship with it.
02:14They will have to make their thinking clear.
02:18The policy of international sports, that politics and sports should be separate,
02:23this thing will have to be conveyed to them.
02:26Mr. Khalid, I would like to know your experience.
02:29When you were the chairman, the situation was not different, it was the same.
02:32Did the situation remain the same when you went to Pakistan or when you came to India?
02:37The last time I visited India was in the last month of 1998.
02:47There was a lot of opposition in the country.
02:51I will remind you that three big incidents took place at that time.
02:57There was a demand that Pakistan should not be called.
03:01In all these circumstances, my counterpart in India, Rai Singh, was a very good person.
03:08He called and asked me to send him a schedule to come to India.
03:12I said, Raj, the situation is such that I cannot take the risk of sending the Pakistan team there.
03:20You don't have control, people are angry, so how will we come?
03:26He said, no, there are a few such people, we will arrange for it, you can rest assured.
03:32I said, I should get some indication from your government that they want Pakistan to visit India.
03:40So in two or three days I saw in all the newspapers, in our newspapers, in their newspapers,
03:46A very good statement was issued by their minister of sports,
03:52that these extremists are their supporters, we will get control over them,
03:59and we want Pakistan to visit India.
04:02Then Raj Singh called and said, have you read the statement, are you satisfied?
04:07I said, no, I am not satisfied.
04:09He said, why?
04:10I said, when it comes to India-Pakistan, then things go up from the ministers' level.
04:16So arrange for something so that a better statement comes from it.
04:21He said, okay.
04:22So after 4-5 days, the statement of the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Bajpai,
04:29came in the newspapers, that they want the Pakistan team to visit,
04:34relations between the two countries will be good.
04:37So we have talked about India, but if I talk about Pakistan,
04:40do you think at the administrative level, we are ready for such a big event?
04:49I have no idea what kind of necessity this hospitality has,
04:54because every trophy, every event has some requirements,
04:59so I am not aware of them.
05:01But it is also a fact that no matter what, a lot of preparation is needed,
05:07in which the teams are arranged, their accommodation arrangements,
05:12their security arrangements, then in different stadiums,
05:18to see if there is a suitable arrangement for entertainment,
05:22then international media comes a lot, to arrange for that.
05:26These are all arrangements, which I have not read in the newspapers yet,
05:34so that it is understood that some work is being done in this regard.
05:38I have seen only one thing, whether it is Qadhafi Stadium or some other stadium,
05:44there is a lot of demolition, demolition and repair work.
05:47Mr. Mahmood, don't go anywhere with us, we will be right back.