Pakistan gamers have a good time scoring a aim throughout their FIH Nations Cup Pool B match towards New Zealand on the Nationwide Hockey Stadium in Kuala Lumpur on June 18, 2025. — FIH
KARACHI: The Pakistan males’s hockey workforce is more likely to be permitted to take part in subsequent month’s Males’s Hockey Asia Cup, Indian media reported on Thursday.
In line with a report, a supply near the Sports activities Ministry of India confirmed the event, citing that any try to forestall the workforce from collaborating within the continental occasion would contravene the Olympic Constitution.
“We aren’t towards any workforce competing in India in a multi-national competitors. If we attempt to cease Pakistan, it might be seen as a violation of the Olympic Constitution. However bilateral is totally different, and there will likely be no rest on that entrance,” the ministry supply mentioned.
“Worldwide sports activities calls for that we can not again out from competing in multi-national competitions. Take for example, Russia and Ukraine-they are at conflict, but they flip up for occasions and compete. The identical precept applies right here,” the official added.
The report additional added, citing the Sports activities Ministry’s supply, that the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) and the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) have additionally permitted Pakistan’s participation within the event, scheduled to be performed in Rajgir, Bihar from August 27 to September 7.
The choice was welcomed by Hockey India (HI), reiterating its stance that it might abide by regardless of the Authorities of India decides.
“We welcome the federal government’s resolution. Our stance from the start was that no matter the federal government decides, we are going to abide by that. There is no such thing as a different argument in that,” mentioned Bhola Nath Singh, HI secretary common.
Alternatively, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has already subjected the nationwide males’s workforce’s participation within the continental occasion to the federal government’s directives.
“We are going to play the Asia Cup in India provided that the federal government provides permission,” PHF Secretary Normal Rana Mujahid had mentioned.
Following the Asia Cup, India can be set to host the FIH Males’s Junior Hockey World Cup from November 28 to December 10, with matches scheduled to be held in Chennai and Madurai.
Faizan Lakhani is Deputy Editor (Sports activities) at Geo Information.
