India vs Pakistan: The tension situation between India and Pakistan remains constant. The Indian Army is giving a befitting reply to all the attacks of Pakistan. In such a situation, the IPL tournament has also been canceled. But there was also a situation when India had to play a match with Pakistan. This match took place on Friday 9 May. According to the IANS report, a handball match has been played between India and Pakistan on Friday.
Why was the match played between India and Pakistan?
The Executive Director of the Handball Federation of India (HFI) spoke about the match of India and Pakistan. He said in a conversation with IANS that the schedule of this tournament was decided four months ago. We had written a letter to the government, the Ministry of Sports and the Indian Olympic Association in this regard. In this letter, we asked whether we should play this match against Pakistan or not. However, we did not get any response between this situation. Because of this, we had to play this match against Pakistan in compulsion, because the International Handball Federation (IHF) had said to ban our team for not playing.
Anandeshwar Pandey, Executive Director of the Handball Federation of India (HFI), to Ians after India played a match with Pakistan on Friday:
“The tournament schedule was finalized four months ago. pic.twitter.com/kmkiyn9vnw
– IANS (@ians_india) May 10, 2025
Will the Indian Sports Ministry decide?
HFI executive director said that apart from playing the match, we had no option left. Along with this, he said that if we are instructed by the Sports Ministry of India that we do not play compared to further then we will not play against Pakistan. The country comes first for us. For this, we are also ready to be banned in this tournament. We only want guidelines from the authorities at the right time.
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