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India vs Pakistan Match:The family members of the Pahalgam terror attack victims slammed the cricket board and cricketers for playing a cricket match against Pakistan just a few months after the deadly terror attack. Aishanya Dwivedi, wife of terror attack victim Shubham Dwivedi, slammed the BCCI for organising the match, adding that the cricket board was not sentimental towards the 26 affected families. Dwivedi further questioned why the cricketers were not objecting and refused to participate in the match. She also claimed that Pakistan will use the revenue generated by the match to promote terrorism and to further attack India. Dwivedi also urged the audience to not buy tickets and not watch the match, even on the TV screens.

"BCCI should not have accepted a match between India and Pakistan...I think BCCI is not sentimental towards those 26 families...What are our cricketers doing? It is said that cricketers are nationalists. It is viewed as our national game. But except 1-2 cricket players, nobody stepped forward to say that we should boycott the match against Pakistan. BCCI cannot make them play at gunpoint. They should take a stand for their country. But they are not doing it," Dwivedi was quoted as saying by ANI.

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Dwivedi also alleged that Pakistan will use the revenue to further plan a deadly attack on India, further urging the people to boycott the match.

"I would like to ask the sponsors and broadcasters if their nationality for those 26 families is finished?...What will the revenue from the match be used? Pakistan will use this just for terrorism...That is a terrorist nation...You will provide them revenue and prepare them to attack us once again. I cannot understand this...I urge people to boycott this. Do not go to watch this and do not switch on your TV for this," she added.

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BJP MP Anurag Thakur, while addressing the issues, stated that while India will not play any bilateral series against Pakistan, the team cannot refuse to participate in the multinational events.