NEW DELHI: India’s national hockey team announced on Friday that they were calling off a series against arch-rivals Pakistan planned for next month amid growing tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Narinder Batra, the secretary general of Hockey India, said that the decision had been made at the instigation of the government less than three weeks before the start of the five-match home series.
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