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Pakistan did not appear for a match 🇵🇰

17 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In a brief press‑style interview, the host (Speaker A) asks a Pakistani official (Speaker B) to explain why Pakistan’s team failed to appear for its scheduled Olympiad match against Israel. The official states that Pakistan does not recognize the State of Israel, and therefore its athletes must adhere to that state policy. He emphasizes that the decision is a governmental directive, not a judgment on individual players or sportsmanship, and that the team is simply following Pakistan’s foreign‑policy stance.

And I just had one final question for you. Yesterday there was this incident in the Olympiad where Pakistan was supposed to play Israel in the first round, but the Pakistani team did not turn up for the match. If you can share some light on that, what happened there?
It was very obvious that when we do not recognize a state, how can we play or how can we get engaged with that state? It's a state policy and we have to follow the state as we are here to represent Pakistan and we have to follow the policies of Pakistan. So we are here. Which is nothing against any player, it is nothing against any sportsman spirit, it's against the state's policy and we have followed that.
Thank you, thank you so much. Welcome.