Pakistan kabaddi player plays for Indian Team, set to face disciplinary action

A starring Pakistani planetary kabaddi player, Ubaidullah Rajput, is staring astatine imaginable disciplinary enactment aft his information successful a backstage tourney successful Bahrain triggered a large contention backmost home. The contented surfaced aft images and videos of Rajput wearing an Indian jersey and waving the Indian emblem during the GCC Cup connected December 16 began circulating wide connected societal media. His quality for a squad labelled arsenic India successful the tourney instantly drew disapproval and attraction from officials successful Pakistan.Also Watch:

Pakistan Kabaddi Federation caput Rana Sarwar confirmed that an exigency gathering of the federation has been scheduled for December 27 to reappraisal the substance and determine connected enactment against Rajput and respective different players involved. Sarwar clarified that the lawsuit successful Bahrain was a privately organised competition, wherever teams were named aft countries specified arsenic India, Pakistan, Canada and Iran by the organisers. However, helium stressed that each squad was expected to comprise players from its ain country. “I tin corroborate it was a backstage lawsuit with backstage teams formed nether the names of India, Pakistan, Canada, Iran etc by the organisers. But each the teams had players of their ain origin.

Indian players represented the Indian backstage broadside and Ubaidullah played for them, which is unacceptable successful these circumstances,” Sarwar said. He further revealed that 16 Pakistani players had travelled to Bahrain successful their idiosyncratic capableness without seeking support from either the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation oregon the Pakistan Sports Board. “As a result, enactment volition besides beryllium taken against these players for falsely playing nether the sanction of the Pakistan team,” helium added. Rajput, meanwhile, has issued a nationalist apology and offered his mentation for the incident. He stated that helium was invited to instrumentality portion successful the tourney and was selected for a backstage team, without initially being informed that the broadside would beryllium presented arsenic the Indian team. “I did not cognize until aboriginal that they had named the broadside arsenic the Indian team, and I told the organisers not to usage the names of India and Pakistan,” Rajput said. He besides pointed retired that successful erstwhile backstage competitions, Indian and Pakistani players person featured unneurotic successful mixed teams, but ne'er nether nationalist squad identities. “I was not nether the content until I recovered retired aboriginal that I was misrepresented arsenic playing for the Indian team, which I can’t deliberation of doing, particularly aft the conflict,” helium added. The federation is present acceptable to deliberate connected the matter, with Rajput’s aboriginal information hanging successful the equilibrium arsenic officials measurement the circumstances surrounding his engagement successful the Bahrain event.