That the simmering tensions across the border are costing dreams is becoming more and more apparent as boys like fifteen year old Mohammad bin Qasim may never live to see their dream.
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The national level Vijay Merchant Trophy gets underway soon and the under 16 team from Jammu and Kashmir could have seen Qasim play, but not for his parents’ disapproval.
His mother incidentally happens to be Asiya Andrabi, chief of the Dukhataran-e-Millat (Daughters of Faith) who stated firmly, “We are not born for bat and ball or, for that matter, to mint money. I told my son to live his life for a bigger cause. Cricket is too small a profession. Cricket can of course give you name, fame and money. But that is not what we are for in this world. We have to work for Islam. Propagate the message of the holy Quran and the prophet in its true sense, not the way the world looks at it.”
But for Qasim, cricket remains a distant dream and while one cannot yet gauge what his talent for India would have been, if the separatist motives of the party are anything to go by, not only Qasim’s dreams may end but also, India’s hopes of watching more boys from Kashmir playing for India.
Pic Above: Kamal Nath, India's Commerce Minister, received an autographed bat from Tim Groser, New Zealand's Trade Minister.
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