Now that's a weird take considering the bloody history of Indo-Pak.
It's not Jay Shah cause it's above his pay grade. It all comes down to Gov to Gov and diplomatic relations and with due all respect, we shouldn't be ignorant about the series of events. Also, everything in Indo-Pak cricket is about politics and it's not a new trend, happening since 50s-60s quite regularly. It would be ignorance if we think otherwise.
Until the relationship between the two doesn't turn to be good, we can't expect things to change. As stated the Indo-Pak cricket is much connected with politics than a game. The people of both the countries have good friendship living in different nations, but when it comes to a match they'll have their ignorance.
The ruling party of India is much against Pakistan and they have an agenda to segregate the nation in terms of religion. In such situation Aisa cup in Pakistan could create political pressure.
Please remind me which country takes pride in 2 nation theory?
Policies regarding Pakistan are more or less similar to every Party in India, no matter who is sitting in Delhi.
Now that's a weird take considering the bloody history of Indo-Pak.
It's not Jay Shah cause it's above his pay grade. It all comes down to Gov to Gov and diplomatic relations and with due all respect, we shouldn't be ignorant about the series of events. Also, everything in Indo-Pak cricket is about politics and it's not a new trend, happening since 50s-60s quite regularly. It would be ignorance if we think otherwise.
Well.. I can agree on this. In the end, it all depends on the decision by the government. But for quite some time now, the relations between the two countries have remained at a stable state. India hasn't witnessed any terrorist incidents such as bombings and mass shootings, and there have been no major border skirmishes between the two sides. If the governments want, they can use cricket as a tool to further improve the relations between these two countries. But in order for that to happen, both the governments need to put the controversial issues (such as Kashmir) on the cold storage for some time.
Hardly a stable situation, Indian authorities just refused to engage with their counterparts from every level (Just look at SCO meet up). There is no change of heart from both sides but LoC ceasefire truce which happened last year, that's why we are not seeing border skirmishes.
Cold storage theory is wonderful or even the status quo would do wonder for the Indian subcontinent but history tell us that every time such initiatives are taken into consideration some major terrorist attacks happen in Indian soil.
I would very much prefer 50-100 years peace deal for the subcontinent but for this to happen I firmly believe Indian Gov should engage with Pak Army and should come to some sort of consensus (Pak army because they are the real player).