The influential Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) said India should refuse to host the tour until arch-rival Pakistan brought to justice the masterminds behind the Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead.
"Why should we have sporting links with a country which is directing terrorism against us," VHP spokesman Prakash Sharma told AFP. "Pakistan is not even willing to accept evidence provided by India of its role."
Sharma declined to give details of any proposed protests, but security will be high for the games in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata and New Delhi.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947, but their shared love of cricket will ensure huge interest on both sides of the border during the tour.
In 1999 protesters from Shiv Sena dug up the pitch in Delhi's Ferozeshah Kotla stadium to protest against a tour by Pakistan, though the game was unaffected.
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Why are these labelled as "radical hindus" when many sections of hindus, muslims and sikhs are against relations with Pakistan because of them sponsoring terrorism against India?
This is not radical hindus, this is the whole world pointing and laughing at Pakistan and not wanting anything to do with them.
@Nitish: "@gp65: Thats what very confusing.Neither RSS nor VHP is directly involved in politics.But somehow i find both of them as interchangeable. But I can assure you VHP members r very much active in politics.Building of largest temple in bihar -a BJP ruled state can be a starter for thought process ."
Building a temple is a religious act not a political one, hence that example does not indicate VHP's political influence.. I do not believe RSS and VHP are interchangeable. A majority of BJP members ae also members of RSS. hey are not members of VHP.
@lovePak: the good doctors still here....dats y people from all over the world including america and pakistan come to india for medical tourism...............:p
@akash Lol! The good doctors left for America, the rest are unemployed.
@Nitish That has to go down as one of the most ridiculous explanations ever. The guy was speaking Hindi. Half my family speaks Punjabi, he does not have the same or even similar accent or dialect. Clearly a staged confession. And okay, you can discard that point, what about all the others. Totally a false-flag even just like 9-11.
it is not just some groups. Most of the people don't want to have this. How can we have aman ki asha with the folks who ideolize hafiz saed type people
@lovePak: No Pakistani Muslim terrorist calls God “Bhagwan”
Jab danta parta hai na..then everyone starts recalling his/her forefathers.Thats what actually he was doing.He was recalling god of his forefathers.By the way he can bully u not us.He was trying to beg some sympathy by calling his lord "Bhagwan".
Good folks must come together and help the two nations forge an unprecedented friendship - my dream is to see that in my life. Please throw away anger, put the past behind and work together to uproot hatred from our hearts. As someone here posted - what benefit do Pakistanis at large have from atrocities committed against people of India by anyone ? How can a decent human being take pride in depriving another of life ? I want to apologize to Indians everywhere for whatever has been done - and beg you to please give rise to love and affection - that in itself is a long journey.
26/11 is just an excuse used by indians to reveal their true hate towards Pakistanis. A handful of deranged morons who attacked Mumbai represents a country of 180 million? Really? Obviously, India has no shortage of these deranged morons also. As for evidence of the Mumbai attacks, why wasn't the judicial committee from Pak that recently visited India to gather evidence of the perpetrators of 26/11 allowed to cross check statements from witnesses and Kasab? There is something called due process - we can't convict someone on hearsay. This shows the real shallow indian heart towards Pakistan, sadly. India will never forgive Pakistanis for breaking up "mahabharat". Blame Nehru and the British for that my indian friends. We are doing just fine here. And bring your religious nuts in control - they are no less than the taliban. Think of a day when we can truly be friends. Just think of that day. Peace.. And let the games begin.
@gp65: Thats what very confusing.Neither RSS nor VHP is directly involved in politics.But somehow i find both of them as interchangeable. But I can assure you VHP members r very much active in politics.Building of largest temple in bihar -a BJP ruled state can be a starter for thought process .
@Asma: "How can be cricket related to 26/11? Hilarious!".................Because 26/11 planners used the cricket as an excuse to come and recce for targets in India. This is very much related.
Aman ki Asha wala here. I think there should be no cricket between Pakistan and India unless Pakistan fulfills Indian demands for an investigation of the Mumbai attacks. How would we as Pakistanis feel if India was doing this to us??
@Nitish: You are wrong BJP were members of RSS not VHP.
@G Din
I concede. What you said is factually true. But at the same time, I don't think, they are as much a force as this editorial made them out to be.
@Cynical: I agree that there is an unnecessary attempt to establish moral equivalence with the radical stuff that goes on in Pakistan. Whether VHP is influential or not is not even relevant. All they are saying is that they will protest against a policy they disagree with. How does that make anyone radical? There are no implicit or explicit threats of violence.
@G.Din : When you say VHP is influential, could you please elaborate on the sphere of their influence? I think people like Ashok Singhal are taken even less seriously than Bal Thackeray.
@lovePak - There are some good doctors in India who treat Hallucinations :-).
@Asma: What's hilarious about 26/11? because of that Mumbai is not a venue for cricket.
@ET
“The influential Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council)
VHP influential! My foot!! Give me a break. They could never won an election either in any of the state assembly or in national parliament. It seems you are trying to draw a kind of moral equivalence by giving them the importance, that they don't deserve.
@It is still... Man, you Indians are so bad at reading politics, you blindly believe what the media tells you.
-No Pakistani Muslim terrorist calls God "Bhagwan" -Our own media was payed millions by Obama as a bribe to do what they want -Indian navy did nothing to stop a boat in their waters -Your army did even less. It is taunted as one of the stupidest anti-terrorism operations not just by Pakistan, but by several Americans as well -Only India benefited from 26-11. Now every Indian is easily controlled by the government through a fear of Pakistan -It is a good way to unite the people through a common albeit very exaggerated enemy threat -More pressure on Pakistan -Ajmal Kasab even had the orange wristband of a Hindu extremist group -There was a RAW-supported attack on Marriott hotel in Islamabad. When proof surfaced, India needed to show itself a victim instead of an aggressor -The Marriott attack was completely forgotten as a result of your false-flag -Ever noticed how everything Pakistan does is somehow always tied back to 26-11
It has false-flag written all over it albeit a very poorly performed one but it worked and Indian politicians probably secretly giggle every time Indians get all emotional about 26-11. You sheep probably wont even believe 9-11 was an inside job even though most scientists agree it was. Common sense escapes you when the media says anything, you trust it blindly!
From day one, India has been against the existence of Pakistan, and has done everything to try to conquer it. You tried thrice already, and guess what? Pakistan still exists today. The very existence of Pakistan is a slap on the face of Indian "might". I for one believe in peace with India, but your government and your ideological aims are getting in the way of it. So are ours it has to be said, but still more yours.
@Raja Poras: oh my!!!!! we r scared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....
@Sara: Forget about India for a minute but no country is sending their cricket team to Pakistan. Does it mean that they are making terrorist win? USA, India, UK, Australia and rest of the World does not hate Pakistanis but hate their policies and support for non state actors. Are you denying that Kasab's Pakistani citizenship? People who attacked Malala Yousufzai and Mumbai are one and the same non state actors and we should help each other to get rid of them.
We are glad that Pakistan separated imagine how much clout Muslim from united India (Muslim from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) would had in the Parliament of United India. It would have been very difficult to have secular policies and constitution.
@Sara: It certainly has nothing to do with these useful attacks in 2008, which India is now milking to their benefit. Boy, those terrorists must really love India to help them out in such a way! Sounds like a true pakistani mulli..............Still believing in conspiracy theory.
@Sara: such a long comment shows that you haven't really grown up at all, and you ask others to show the maturity? you sound like the Pakistanis have been loving Indians ever since Pakistan managed to get its freedom, obviously that's not the case, perhaps, your long comment itself stands as evidence to prove who is propagating the hate here.
@SJ: Okay, how about you also stop terrorist activities in Pakistan. Remember Indian terrorist Sarabjit Sigh??? Our 26/11 happened 20 years back.
Poor headline created to establish false equivalence that there are radicals on both sides. Expressing dissent of official policy verbally is the very essence of democracy and does not constitute radicalization.
Incidentally I do not agree with VHP and that does not make me a radical either.
Funny, looks like the only country which BENEFITED from the so called Mumbai attacks is India! Look at how Indians use this attack to justify any and all hostility towards Pakistan... Just to remind all those suffering from amnesia, India has hated Pakistan ever since Pakistan managed to get its freedom from India. If the convenient Mumbai attacks hadn't happened, these same obsessed Indians would be using other fake terrorist attacks to bash Pakistan and try to act like the victim. Something they've learned from the their best buddy Isrl!
Grow up and admit the truth. There are dozens of posts by fanatic Indians saying that Pakistan is still a part of India! So it is this extremist hatred by these fundamental Indians, which has been going on for 60 years now. It certainly has nothing to do with these useful attacks in 2008, which India is now milking to their benefit. Boy, those terrorists must really love India to help them out in such a way!
As for sending terrorists, don't forget, the recent Indian terrorist spy who Pakistan released and let go back to India. And another Indian terrorist is still in jail in Pak. So before you point your dirty finger at someone else, look at yourself first.
p.s. Who killed Karkare? (remember him? the guy that exposed the fact that India lied and was behind the Samjhota Express attack, which India tried to blame on Pakistan as well? So the question is, how many more terrorist attacks has India planned and framed on Pakistan, but didn't get caught red handed, as they did with the Samjhota Express one?)
Oh, and also, India should learn a thing or two from Sri Lanka. Look at what a big heart that country and its citizens have, after what happened to their, there was a big headline in the Sri Lankan paper, "Pakistan is our friend, don't let the terrorists win"
So basically, India wants the terrorists to win! (well amazing how they calmly marched into their country while a military exercise was going on! har! har!)
How amazing of Jayasuriya to come to Pakistan, and say all those nice things. And if something like this had happened to the Indian cricket team, well, these same obsessed Indians on this forum would be using the incident to their advantage yet again. Learn something from the kind, bighearted Sri Lankans my dear, obsessed Indians! Rise above and stop your hatred. Stop using terrorist attacks to your advantage and helping the terrorists win (unless of course, that's what you want)
@abc: Welcome to global digital village not everyone posting on ET opposing your view is Indian or non resident Pakistanis. We are all citizen of global village. Also we are not paid by ISI / CIA/ RAW/ MOSSAD/ MI5 etc. The bitter truth is everyone in the global village is amazed to the way Pakistani think of a problem and the solutions they come up with. BTW we do not mind your opinions we cherish it and respect it. Please continue to post here.
@Lala Gee:
I believe PCB was begging for two years for a series to fill it's empty coffers if not anything else.
Thanks for the joke but, I believe this is what Ayub Khan said before he sold out Pak to America.
@BlackJack: "@Everyone else: Vishwa Hindu Parishad is the name of a semi-political organization – it is not a global gathering of Hindus." "Vishwa Hindu Parishad" translates as "World Hindu Council" and is very much an international organization of Hindus. An organization cannot be called "a gathering" as you have pointed out! In what way do you consider it a semi-political? It doesn't participate in any political process.
we will not let Pak play. we will dug wickets. I will lay on the ground, the ball have to penetrate through me to reach batsmen. I will cut the elctricity of stadium and toilets will also be closed!!!
Oooh, see India is full of radicals.None of tolerant Pakis should ever, ever visit India. Pakis, Y u no act on what u believe.
@abc: and we dont want you on our forum here so quit posting on Pakistani news forums. Pathetic self-obsessed Indians
we will,surely we will quit posting, when ET promises us that it will stop posting news even remotely connected to India, we will quit posting comments here. To make it simple, if ET puts a note or remark stating: We request Indians not to comment on any news or articles --that will do us, but it has to come from ET, not from others.
Until then,we view ET as an news website which would be more than happy to get as many viewership as possible,and would love to capitalize the Indian media market, and therefore,it is relevant for Indians to comment here as long as ET desires to make this news website an international website, and Indians are playing there part to make ET a truly international news website.
@Kaddu: "The REAL UGLY face of India!!" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ And the ten who arrived uninvited in mumbai from Karachi are the friendly face of Pakistan...state and non state. Not a single ball will be bowled un less every Pakistani involved in 26/11 is behind bars.
@abc: Let's make a deal then, you stop sending terrorists in India and I'll stop coming to "your" forum. Fair enough?
Hindu 'Radicals'use words Paksitani Radicals use bullets. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There is no room for cricket ball in between.
BCCI wants to make money and help Pakistan too to do the same in the process. Otherwise what is the logic behind India refusing entry for Pak body builders and U15 baseball team? But, the majority of the people in India are least interested in a cricket series with Pakistan, the situation being what it is. I don't know how many terrorists are going to enter India in the guise of fans. Until there is real peace, which will take eternity, there need not be any cricket ties between the the countries. Either country will be none the worse for it.
There are more reasons why some in India do not like Pakistan Cricket Team touring India. The bad feelings started many years ago when Pakistan started to treat the cricket field as a large, open Mosque. Inzi was fond of leading his team to prayers. Would Pakistan allow Australia to do the same in Pakistan? The height of this foolishness was when Inzi was saying that he is apologizing to the entire muslim world for loosing to India when in the same podium India was awarding "man of the match" award to their team mate Ifran Pathan.
Pakistan has an excellent cricket team and keeps on producing excellent players year after year. If only they can keep religion (or rather ridiculing religion) out of the game ....................
@Kaddu: The REAL UGLY face of India!! this face, it's only reserved for Pakistan, it's not for all, we have no problem with others playing here, be it Bangladesh, Srilanka, Afghanistan etc, they are all welcome.
and, when have we shown a different face than what you are seeing now? its been that way since decades, don't blame India if you have failed to see it all along.
@Lala Gee: In the long run, India needs Pakistan more than we do.
this sentence is a little ambiguous, it sounds like you don't need Pakistan, and India wants Pakistan more than Pakistanis themselves.
Very biased headline/statement. It was better if they had mentioned Racial Hindu Groups in India objected to Pakistan team's India tour. Having colloboration with credible International Newspaper gorup, I did not expect such biased statement from ET.
By the way we Hindus in Pakistan are used to such news/statements from Media, politicans and so on.
it would have been better if the headline was: Hindus object to visit of 'Radical' team's India tour.
Don't agree with VHP. Having said that, if asking for no crickeing ties until 26/11 perpetrators are brought to justice is 'radical' what is - setting a school to fire by accusing teacher of writing some blasphemous note in a 6th grader's notebook? - seting a man to fire for not participating in protests on Love the Prophet day? - desecrating graves of people because they have Quran verses in them but majority does not believe those people to be Muslim? - thinking that showing that conversion of a minority person to a majority (maybe willing) on prime time TV is in good taste? - holding meetings by prayer leader where people are taught how to file blasphemy cases against prayer leaders of a separate sect? - openly having meetings in Rawalpindi and Islamabad by DPC calling for jihad?
All disagreements do not qualify for the label radical as long as there is no associated threat of violence. In fact expressing differences of agreements verbally is the very opposite of radicalization.
its a right cause their shudnot be any kind of cricketing relations when terrorists from pakistan are looking for an attempt to cross over and blow themselves away.give hafiz saeed ,dawood ibrahim and jamat ut dawa terrorists to india and then ur most welcome.
@SJ:
and we dont want you on our forum here so quit posting on Pakistani news forums. Pathetic self-obsessed Indians
Yes Indians are sick people; ten of your trained so called non-state actors come to Mumbai and shoot people like birds and we will welcome you with open arms and play cricket. and you plan another strike.
@Lala Gee: In the long run, India needs Pakistan more than we do. I always enjoy your irrational optimism. India needs Pakistan like it needs a stomach ulcer - eminently avoidable, but if it exists, then it refuses to be forgotten. @Everyone else: Vishwa Hindu Parishad is the name of a semi-political organization - it is not a global gathering of Hindus. I object to the use of the word 'radical' where 'hardline' would have sufficed. Naturally Indo-Pak cricket tournaments, which used to be awaited eagerly by us, now evoke bitter sentiments because wounds are still fresh, and kept painful by Pakistan's unwillingness to get to the bottom of the 2008 Bombay attacks - possibly because the actual extent of official involvement would be too much for this nation of gullible people to stomach.
@Lala Gee: India is also behind LeJ, JuD, Mangal Bagh, and Asif Zardari! :)
@Lala Gee:In the long run, India needs Pakistan more than we do. Hahahahahaha...... are baap re baap...... hahahahahahahaha.Abe tu log kahan rahata hai be....in the same planet where i m residing or somewhere else..........
Exactly this is the true face of India, you have seen it ans now move along. We don't want you on our soil, have some self respect
what is wrong this statement if raised by hindu or christian or any one from India "India should refuse to host the tour until arch-rival Pakistan brought to justice the masterminds behind the Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead." .
This happens to be our 'most favored nation'. Indians understand only "Taqat ki bhasha" not aman ki asha...
@Lala Jee
Are you a relative of Laluji? I asked because Laluji is a blockhead.
I think Aman Ki Asha is one sided.
@Tribune
If you publish AFP's news , then publish it fully.
What so-called Hindu radical groups said
"The influential Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) said India should refuse to host the tour until arch-rival Pakistan brought to justice the masterminds behind the Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead"
They are nationalists , not radical or fundamental or terrorist (Yes , for this statement only).We support these groups for these statement .
The bitter truth is that people of Pakistan would like to move past 26/11 at any cost to tell the world everything is A OK. Equally on the other hand in India people have not forgotten Mumbai and it is justifiable. How and when victim come to closure is up to victims and not for the offender to dictate no matter how polished those words are. Lack of progress and cooperation of the Government of Pakistan has not helped the matter.Oppositions to measures such as drone to eliminate terrorist and support for LeT Hafeez gives credence to lack of sincerity on the part of Government of Pakistan
Suggestion Government of Pakistan or some organization should take out full page ad in Indian newspaper and apologize for Mumbai as a balm to the wounds of there brother and sisters in India. Such a goodwill gesture will go long way. World has changed and old ways of PR will not help. People can follow the progress of Mumbai trial over the internet and do not need Mr Rheman Malik to issue PR bulletin.
“Why should we have sporting links with a country which is directing terrorism against us,” VHP spokesman Prakash Sharma told AFP
Exactly for the same reasons Pakistani team must not tour India. Until the Indian masterminds behind TTP, BLA, Mukhti Bahini, and the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team etc., are not brought to justice, Pakistan must not have any kind of sports and trade relations with India. In the long run, India needs Pakistan more than we do.
Im sick of radicals on both sides tbh.
Spoil sports!
The REAL UGLY face of India!!
I would like to see the reaction of Pseudo Liberals and Aman ki Aasha people here, thank you.