Gilani to watch WC semi-final with Manmohan

[jayron]

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It is a goodwill gesture. Same on hate filled guys who are opposing it. i just hope nothing untoward happens..

[fida jan]

Water bottles are not allowed in the grounds

not on the grounds but what about the entire stadium??

[fida jan]

don't worry.. he will only carry 10% of his daily allowance!!

dont even carry 10% of daily allowance, keep it safe away from possible pocket thieves

u never know when and where you were stolen, zardari is a master thief.... all will end in swiss bank where not even your grand father can recover

and tell him to re insure all his stuff even his dhotti

[nick_indian]

india's prime minister invited mr zardari and mr kiyani to watch semifinal match at mohali......

Acchha ? thank you apne bata diya warna kaise pata chalta

[nick_indian]

So have they accepted it ?

[pmukherjee]

this shameless ....... will most probably accept this invite,and bring shame upon pakistan once again.

Why do you feel that it is shameful for the President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan to go to India to cheer the Pakistani team playing its world cup semi finals in India? I am not saying that they should jump up and down and paint their faces like teenagers or blow bugles or trumpets in the stadium. But seeing them in the stands may inspire the players. Of course, it is a different matter if you are superstitious and feel that your team may lose if these two go there to see the match.

[Raja.Pakistani]

Our people have get killed, 26/11 and the terrorist training caps are all there intact.

But foolish MMS want to have fun......He have no shame at all.

How on earth after this invitation we blame pak for terrorism sponsoring and everything. If pak is not behind then why his govt. blame pak and stopped cricket etc. etc.

Allow pakistan or stop this ping pong.

i see a hindu extremist in this post ..Are you a representative of Bal takrey?

[ameer219]

I came to a thread, to see funny jokes about what the PM or president of Pakistan would have done, but I am dissapointed to see keyboard wars on politics. Shame that we even include politics into cricket

[Kinetic]

Whoever made it, made it cool!!!

Ponting showed total unsportsmanship during the match, specially Gambhir's catch.

[Kinetic]

India issues 5000 visas for Pakistan cricket fans
India issues visas for Pakistan cricket fans - India News - IBNLive



Special buses for Pakistani fans in Wagah border
India (Ind) vs Pakistan (Pak): Special buses for Pakistani fans in Wagah border

[Abingdonboy]

India's PM has invited Pakistan's leaders to join him in watching next week's cricket World Cup semi-final game between the South Asian rivals.

The hugely-anticipated match is due to be hosted in the northern Indian city of Mohali.

Earlier, Pakistan's cricket team arrived for their first visit to India since the 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.

Relations between the nuclear-armed rivals are still tense after Pakistan-based militants targeted the city.

More than 170 people were killed in the attacks, which Pakistan admitted were partly planned on its soil.

The two sides have met a number of times over the past year and Pakistan's foreign minister was scheduled to visit India by July to discuss the resumption of peace talks.

Formal invitations from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be delivered to the Pakistani High Commission for Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Indian media reports said.

Continue reading the main story
Analysis

Soutik Biswas
BBC News, Delhi
Cricket diplomacy in the subcontinent is nothing new.

Pakistan's President General Zia was the first to use it when he made a sudden visit to India in the mid-1980s to watch an India-Pakistan game and ease tensions arising from a military exercise by India along the Pakistan border.

He also met Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi informally in an attempt to defuse the tension.

But whether Mr Singh's diplomacy will lead to any significant thaw in relations or lead to a resumption of bilateral cricket ties is a moot question.

Biswas on India: Epic encounter
A foreign office spokesman in the Pakistani city of Islamabad said no decision had been made on whether to accept the invitation, the Reuters news agency reported.

Pakistan's cricket team slipped into India almost unnoticed, despite a frenetic build-up to the match that has already been billed as the ultimate show down, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says.

Almost half of the team have never been to India.

Heavy security is already in place for the match but this was stepped up after police said on Thursday they had arrested a man they believed was planning an attack during the World Cup.

Across India and Pakistan there is a mad scramble for tickets for next week's face-off, our correspondent says.

India has issued 5,000 visas to Pakistanis with confirmed tickets and the government is under pressure to ease restrictions and allow more people in from across the border.


Pakistan trounced the West Indies earlier this week to reach the semi-final
Before the Mumbai attacks, the two sides held formal peace talks known as a "composite dialogue" for several years but made little headway, apart from a number of confidence-building measures.

The main disputes between the two sides centre on counter-terrorism and the Himalayan territory of Kashmir - which both countries claim.

But there are also a number of economic issues and smaller territorial disagreements which divide the sides.

But relations have been slowly improving, although talks ended in acrimony last July with the two sides in a public spat over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

BBC News - Cricket World Cup: India PM invites Pakistan leaders

I say good move- someone had to make the first move,right?

May also be a shrewd move to dissuade Pak-backed terrorist in WC.

[Agnostic_Indian]

what ever..

[Spring Onion]

it has been posted millions of times. and whats new here. Musharraf also invited MM Singh for a match

[Abingdonboy]

Manmohan singh is the most corrupt and weak pm India ever had after gujral, both of them known for being pro pakistan.

It's clear you don't know international diplomacy works, in most cases it is conducted over drinks and not at the end of a gun. And yes the PM has a lack of authority but that is because of the stupid rules that allow a leader to win an election but appoint another as PM meaning the PM is not the ultimate power.

And it is just downright ridiculous to call MMS corrupt, it is well known he is one of the cleanest politicians in India, he has a commendable record and is responsible for getting India to its economic footing it is today. It is his misfortune he is surrounded by incompetent and corrupt SCUM in his cabinet. There is not a single piece of evidence that shows he is corrupt, weak yes corrupt defiantly not.

[Wonderer]

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It's clear you don't know international diplomacy works, in most cases it is conducted over drinks and not at the end of a gun. And yes the PM has a lack of authority but that is because of the stupid rules that allow a leader to win an election but appoint another as PM meaning the PM is not the ultimate power.

And it is just downright ridiculous to call MMS corrupt, it is well known he is one of the cleanest politicians in India, he has a commendable record and is responsible for getting India to its economic footing it is today. It is his misfortune he is surrounded by incompetent and corrupt SCUM in his cabinet. There is not a single piece of evidence that shows he is corrupt, weak yes corrupt defiantly not.

I disagree.

As head of the government he is respobsible. Yes responsible.