Aasif Manzoor, a 32-year-old cricketer from Anantnag, a district in the south of Indian-administered Kashmir, was readying himself on Saturday morning to play a match in a star-studded tournament. Retired global stars, local cricket icons and up-and-coming players were all part of the Indian Heaven Premier League (IHPL), which organisers had billed as a spectacle that they promised would grip the troubled region and draw large crowds.
That's a lot of marble and gold. You know, look, I don't have a problem with gold, but I would probably say to the president, Let's just politically get over this little moment and then we can go back to making all the changes you want to make, Singleton said, looking sheepish. I do worry, however, if we give our Democratic friends something to sort of use against us. I don't want to do that!