April 05 , 2017

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Kashmiri cricketers in Pakistani cricket team’s uniform sing national anthem

SRINAGAR: A video of a cricket match held at a local ground in the Kashmir Valley has gone viral on social media in which players of one team are seen wearing Pakistan team’s uniform and singing the country’s’ National Anthem.

The match was played at a ground in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district where India is going to conduct polling for Indian Parliamentary by-elections for Srinagar constituency on Sunday, 9th April.

The video of the match played at Wayil playfield in Ganderbal shows a speaker making an announcement that Pakistan’s national anthem will be played at the start of match, following which the two teams stand upright and listen to the anthem.

While players of one team were wearing a white uniform, the other team members were wearing the green Pakistani uniform. The match was played this week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Jammu to inaugurate a tunnel.

 

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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