Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi has made Pakistan’s place clear on the difficulty of shaking palms with India throughout cricket matches. Forward of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026, Naqvi stated Pakistan won’t power any symbolic gestures if India should not keen to participate.Talking to the media in Lahore, Naqvi stated Pakistan has all the time believed that cricket and politics needs to be saved separate.

He added that this view has not modified over time and that the message has come from the very best degree. In accordance with him, Pakistan additionally doesn’t need to be handled in a different way or unfairly.“Our perception stays the identical even at present, and consider me, the Prime Minister himself has informed me twice that we shouldn’t let politics come into all of this. From day one, our stance has been that cricket and politics ought to stay separate. On that day, Sarfaraz should have informed you what sort of perspective was proven, and what it was like,” Naqvi stated.He additional defined that Pakistan won’t insist on shaking palms if India chooses to not. “In the event that they don’t need to shake palms, then now we have no explicit want to take action both. No matter occurs, it’ll occur on an equal footing with India. And you will notice, this method will proceed going ahead. It’s not doable for them to do one factor and for us to again down — that merely gained’t occur.”The handshake difficulty between India and Pakistan has been ongoing for a while. For the reason that Pahalgam terror attack, gamers from either side have prevented shaking palms in a number of tournaments. This was seen in the course of the Males’s T20 Asia Cup, the Girls’s Cricket World Cup, and the latest Below-19 Asia Cup.Nevertheless, all of it started in the course of the Asia Cup 2025. After a match between India and Pakistan, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav and his teammates refused to shake palms with the Pakistan gamers. India stated this was carried out as a protest after the Pahalgam assault.