Indian Cricket Players Hope to Start a Thaw
From Times Wire Reports
Ringed by armed security forces, India’s cricketers arrived in Lahore for their first full tour of Pakistan in 14 years, determined to win but also hoping the visit would help bring peace between South Asia’s nuclear-armed rivals.
Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Pakistan and India have been enemies, unable to reconcile their competing claims to the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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