New Delhi: Indian media reported on Monday that India has
banned Pakistani players from participating in Hockey India League
(HIL), going to be started in January next year.
59 players from 12 countries will be included in the league but Pakistan is not one of them.
The players will be auctioned on November 18 and the tournament is due to start in January.
Earlier this year, nine Pakistani players who had signed up to play
in the HIL were sent home as a result of a flare-up along the Line of
Control.
Officials of the hockey league had said that the players will be
paid as promised but they were not allowed to play due to rising
tension.
The decision to send the players home came after around 100 workers
of the hardline right-wing Shiv Sena party protested at a stadium where
the Mumbai Magicians team, who had four Pakistani players in their
squad, were practising. They were protesting the latest outbreak of
violence in Kashmir.
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