A Spoilsport Called Pakistan

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Withholding the Asia Cup trophy from India will harm cricket
A Spoilsport Called Pakistan
Mohsin Naqvi at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, September 28, 2025 Credits: (Photo: AP)

IT WAS MOMENTS after the final was won that the Indians assembled back on the field to collect the trophy. Mohsin Naqvi, determined to hog the limelight, was standing on the dais to hand things over. That’s when the impasse started. It was natural the Indians wouldn’t want to have anything to do with Naqvi. Here was someone who had posted on X multiple times with the airplane celebration mocking the Indian armed forces. Here was a man who justified Pakistan’s disrespectful acts time and again. He was persona non grata for the Indians and it was time they voiced their opinion.