India and Pakistan gather around a cricket ground


SPORT FOR PEACE (2/3) India and Pakistan, two countries in open or latent warfare for nearly seventy years, met in February 2015 at the Cricket World Cup.
On February 15, 2015, one billion viewers watched the India-Pakistan match, one hundred million more than for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics or the final of the last World Cup.
Indifferent to most sports that thrill the rest of humanity, India and Pakistan have indeed a common passion for cricket, sport imported by the British colonizer, the time when the two peoples were united in the same State, until the partition of 1947.
The main issue of this game was not on the field but in the stands
In this February match counting for the World Cup, the sporting logic was respected, because India dominated its neighbor, which was the case during the six meetings between the two teams between 1992 and 2015. Lean consolation, Pakistan was avenged in the semi-finals by Australia, future winner of the competition.
Still, the main issue of this party was not on the field but in the stands, where diplomats from the two rival countries exchanged polite smiles.
A few days earlier, the prime ministers of these two neighboring and rival states had resumed a dialogue interrupted again six months earlier, when the Pakistani foreign minister had made an affront to the Indian authorities to meet during a trip. in New Delhi, separatists from Kashmir.

This province of India, where a high proportion of Muslims live, benefits from Pakistani support. Boot noises are regularly heard on the borders between the two countries, and skirmishes, cleverly orchestrated and then stifled, regularly break out between Indian and Pakistani troops.
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