Pak debarred from Kabaddi World Cup
posted on Oct 5, 2016 @ 3:07PM
The Kabaddi World Cup which is set to commence in Ahmedabad on 7th October will not see Pakistan participating. International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) chief Deoraj Chaturvedi, who is from India, said Pakistan has been denied entry because of a spike in tensions between the two nations.“This is not the right time to engage with Pakistan,” Chaturvedi said. Apart from countries like India, Iran and Bangladesh, Pakistan is one of the strongest members of the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) but it has not been invited to the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup. Relationships between India and Pakistan have become worse after the former carried out surgical strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as a response to the attack on the Army Headquarters in Uri on September 18, 2016. "We have called a meeting to discuss this issue but let me tell you that a Kabaddi World Cup is no world cup without Pakistan," said Pakistan Kabaddi Federation secretary Rana Muhammad Sarwar.