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August 11, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - With political tensions running high over disputed Kashmir, India on Thursday decided to pull out of a one-day cricket series against Pakistan scheduled to be played in Toronto, Canada, next month, Press Trust of India news agency said. Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa said the Indian team will not play against Pakistan "as long as that country goes on encouraging killings of innocent people in Kashmir and elsewhere," PTI reported. India had refused to play against Pakistan in Toronto last year also, citing the same reasons. On Thursday, nine policemen and one photojournalist were killed in a powerful car bomb blast in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. India accuses Pakistan of training and arming Muslim militants fighting a secessionist war in Indian-held Kashmir since 1989. Pakistan denies the charge and says it only offers moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri militant groups. |