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Time for the Sports World to Unite Against Pakistan

'How many deaths will it take till we know that too many people have died.'                                                                                                      - Bob Dylan India is scheduled to play Pakistan on 16th June 2019 in the Cricket World Cup. Should India still take the field? Should we play a sport with a country that supports the kind of terrorism that has killed our citizens for decades?  How much is enough? Historically, the sporting world has taken stands against countries that are sponsoring or committing acts of hatred and terror. The best known example of this is South Africa during apartheid. The world came together and took a stand that they no longer believe a country that practices such atrocities should be allowed to interact and compete with the rest of the world. In 1980 the USA, Japan, West Germany and China along with a number of other countries boycotted the Olympics in Moscow because of USSR's incursion i