If recent history is any witness, the Afghanistan-Pakistan cricket rivalry seems to have surpassed that of India and Pakistan’s, with post-match brawls amongst fans becoming a common spectacle
While the cricketing rivalry between Afghanistan and Pakistan may be in its infancy, it has got all the ingredients for a heated contest anytime the two teams meet, courtesy of their political histories.
“It has divided people that were Pashtun well before they were Afghans or Pakistani or Indian,” he said.Ahmer Naqvi, a freelance journalist, looks at the issue from the prism of sports being compelling for the reason that it allows for “political and social issues to be represented and to be resolved in a superficial way”..
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