Srinagar, Feb. 10 -- In a strong statement today, Jammu and Kashmir Sports Minister Satish Sharma voiced his opposition to the scheduled India-Pakistan cricket match on February 15, arguing that India should not play against a nation he claims is "robbing us in broad daylight, martyring our soldiers".

"We should not play with them. Respect the good people. These are people who are robbing us in broad daylight, martyring our soldiers. So many of our Kashmiri people have been martyred, so many people from Jammu have been martyred. I believe what the Government of India did recently shouldn't have happened. We are people of love; we know that whenever hatred has been defeated, it has been defeated by love. Hatred cannot be defeated by hatre...