The Selective Memory Problem
India has not played bilateral cricket with Pakistan for nearly 18 years. That boycott was justified—repeatedly—on security and political grounds. The ICC accepted it. No evidentiary threshold was imposed. No arbitration was demanded. India’s position was treated as sovereign assessment.
Yet when Pakistan invokes security concerns—after near-war escalation in May, routine cross-border firing in regions like Leepa Valley, and continued unrest cited by India itself in areas such as Kishtwar—the response suddenly becomes: prove it.
That is not consistency. That is hierarchy.









































