Federal Information Attaullah Tarar criticized the Indian cricket team for refusing to shake hands with Pakistani players after the victory of India in the Asia Cup 2025 match on Sunday and called the act of politicizing the sport.
“A nation that is morally bankrupt and that has no values will always resort to this kind of theatrics in the sport when you [India] I can’t win on military field, “Tarar said during an event organized by the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS).
“They try to politize cricket,” noticed the minister, and mentioned the movement of the New Delhi as a failed attempt to save itself from shame after military defeat against Pakistan in the Meiconflict, where his jets were shot and the reaction of Pakistan on cross -border attacks encouraged a couzenfuur.
The comments from Tarar refer to the constant controversy that occurred after Pakistan and India Captains hands on the toss during their Asia Cup 2025 – -retained value, a omission reportedly directed by Match Refree Andy Pycroft.
The same was repeated by the end of the game, when the players of the opposite teams shake hands according to the cricket tradition, where the Indian team spread the usual handshake after the game.
While the Indian players congratulated each other with the Dugout after the game, they kept away from acknowledging or shaking hands with the Pakistani team.
Pakistan’s players stood in line and expected the usual handshake, only to withdraw the Indian team and close the changing room doors.
The victory captain of India, Suryakumar, defended his team’s decision not to shake the Pakistani players by hand of Pakistani players who were taken in accordance with their government and cricket board.
“We are tailored to the government and the Council of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Some things are over sportiness. Is it really sportiness if you don’t even shake hands with the other team? That was our answer,” he said.
The movement led to a strong reaction from the cricket brotherhood, as well as Mohsin Naqvi, which leads both the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and is also the serving head of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).
Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha not only refused in protest to attend the ceremony after the game, by breaking with broadcasting standards where Captains usually share their thoughts, the PCB has filed a formal complaint with the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Marylebone asporr or the Repair or the Repaire or the Repaire or the Repaire or the Repaire or the Repaire or the Repaire or the Repaire or the Repaire or Repaire or Repaire or Repaire ‘, with the Repaire or Repaire or Repaire or Repair), with the Repaire or Repaire. Report Asia Cup 2025-For Report Asia Cup 2025-For Report Asia Cup. Instructing the omission of the usual handshake.
Apart from recording the case with the ICC, the PCB also landed hard on its own director of international cricket Usman Wahla and he suspended him about not immediately forwarding an official letter to the ICC with regard to the controversy of the Asia Cup handshake.
The game of Sunday, the first since the two countries were involved in an armed conflict caused by the cross-border attack by India, followed by the retribution of Pakistan and launching “Operation Bunyan-Um-Marsoos”.
The hostilities left more than 70 people dead in rocket, drone and artillery fairs, before a ceasefire was finally reached.
The neighbors have not been met with both parties in a bilateral series in a bilateral series since 2012 and only play each other in international tournaments on neutral land as part of a compromise agreement.
