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Kashmiri cricketers held for singing Pakistan national anthem, donning jersey for match

The video of the cricketers lining up in green uniform and singing the Pakistani anthem has gone viral.

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Jammu and Kashmir police have held local cricket players of the Baba Darya Ud Din (a revered sufi saint) club team who donned the Pakistani team jersey and sang the Pakistani national anthem before a match in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir. The organisers of the match, being played at the Wayil grounds, have also been detained.

"They have been detained for questioning," Ghulam Hassan Bhat, deputy inspector general of police, Central Kashmir Range, told DNA.

The video of the cricketers lining up in green uniform and singing the Pakistani anthem has gone viral. Local police have registered a case under unlawful activities act and criminal conspiracy.

The 1 minute-44 second video features players in green Pakistani uniforms lined up along the pitch, while the rival team is in white. A loudspeaker then calls for the playing of 'Quami Taraana', the Pakistani national anthem. Some players place their hand over their hearts the anthem plays.


The incident comes after scores of burqa-clad women of the "Dukhtaran-e-Milat' (DeM) unfurled Pakistani flags and sang that country's national anthem to celebrate Pakistan Day in the Kashmir valley on March 23.

It also comes against the backdrop of a stern warning by army chief General Bipin Rawat to those who unfurl flags of ISIS and Pakistan in the Valley.

"We would now request the local population that people who have picked up arms, and these are the local boys, if they want to continue with this acts of terrorism, displaying flags of ISIS and Pakistan, then we will treat them as anti-national elements and go helter-skelter for them", General Rawat had said in February.

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