Every ball bowled against Pakistan is an insult to our fallen soldiers. India vs Pakistan Asia Cup Match 2025 LIVE Updates: The India vs Pakistan Asia Cup match faces a boycott call from the vast majority of Indian cricket team fans. However, BCCI has decided to go ahead with the match as per the Indian government's policy, which states that India will not boycott Pakistan in multilateral tournaments as the country aims to host the world's biggest sporting events like the Olympics in India. India has made it clear that it will continue to boycott the bilateral sporting assignments against Pakistan. India last played a bilateral cricket series against Pakistan in 20212-13. The Indian fans are vehemently opposing the match against Pakistan on social media as it takes place just a few months after the deadly Pahalgam terror attack.
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi slammed the BJP-led central government ahead of India-Pakistan Asia Cup cricket match, asking whether the value of 26 lives lost in the Pahalgam terror attack was more or the money earned through the match.
Addressing a public meeting organised here on late Saturday, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated that water and blood cannot flow together, that terror and talks aren’t possible.
“How much money will the BCCI get from one cricket match Rs 2,000 crore, Rs 3,000 crore? Tell us is the value of the lives of our 26 citizens more or the money? The BJP should tell us about it (on the decision to play the match against Pakistan)”.
The BJP always talks about ‘Desh Bhakti’, but when it comes to cricket matches, then it gets “stumped” (changes version), he said.
The AIMIM has always stood with the families of those killed in the Pahalgam terror attack, he said.
“How come the match is being held? It should not be played. When we can stop water–Indus Water Treaty, then how can we play. We want to ask the BJP and RSS: What is the price of those 26 lives? The BJP and RSS are not seeing the lives lost – only (how to earn) the money,” he alleged.
Traditional rivals India and Pakistan will face off in Dubai on Sunday in what will be the first match between the two sides since the military conflict in May, when India launched strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan-controlled territories after 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed in a dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22.