Srinagar: Acting on the clip which has gone viral showing players of local Kashmiri cricket club wearing Pakistani cricket team’s uniform, Police Wednesday detained all the eleven players from the team named after local saint Baba Darya Ud Din, a popular saint whose shrine is situated in Ganderbal.
The clip first which surfaced on social media was first uploaded by a news portal Kashmir Media Service.
Screenshot of the video
The video shows boys singing the Pakistan national anthem ‘Pak Sar Zamin Shad Bad’ before the start of the game.
The match was played on April 2, when PM Modi was in state to inaugurate Chenani-Nashri tunnel.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Kashmir central Ghulam Hassan Bhat while talking to Delhi based newspaper said the cricketers were detained for questioning. “The boys are in the police station.”
The reports coming from Ganderbal suggest that the two teams playing the match represented India and Pakistan.
However the Indian side wore white uniform. A resident as quoted by Hindustan Times said “national anthems of both countries were played, like in any international match.”
HT quoting sources writes “a team of the counter-terrorism National Investigation Agency (NIA) will fly from New Delhi to the Valley on Thursday to probe the cricket incident.”
Another website quotes a player saying “we wanted to show fellow Kashmiris that we haven’t forgotten Kashmir issue, so we found this particular theme as most appropriate and catchy.”
