India, Sept. 22 -- Pakistani cricketers Haris Rauf and Sahibzada Farhan's gestures during the Asia Cup match against India in Dubai on Sunday have sparked controversy, with politicians also weighing in. One of the Pak playersreportedly alluded to the four-day military clash during Operation Sindoor, while another mimicked pointing his bat like a gun, likened to an 'AK-47.'

The controversial gestures by the two Pakistani cricketers also reignited the political debate whether India should have boycotted Pakistan in the Asia Cup.

Pakistan's Haris Rauf, during the second innings of the match that India won, responded to jeers from the spectators by lifting his fingers and indicating '0-6' - a reference that social media decoded to be Islama...