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India sent its first sports team to Pakistan in more than a year on Thursday as a seven-member boxing team flew into Karachi to compete in a international tournament. The boxers are the first Indian sports team to cross the border since India stalled sporting links with Pakistan after the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which New Delhi blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
India refused to allow its cricket team to tour Pakistan late last year, citing security fears. Pakistan sent tennis, squash and snooker players to compete in India last year but New Delhi resisted sending its own sportsmen to Pakistan. The peace process between the two nuclear armed neighbours, which have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, collapsed after the Mumbai attacks.
Head coach of the Indian boxing team, Shiv Singh, said the boxers were happy to tour Pakistan. Mohammad Ali Shah, the sports minister in Sindh province of which Karachi is the capital, promised foolproof security arrangements in the wake of a suicide attack that killed 43 people in the city on Monday.
Three Indian boxers - Sanjay Singh, Naresh Singh and Parnoj Singh - will compete in the international event named after former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in December 2007. The organisers expect around 20 teams to compete in the week-long contest, which begins with an opening ceremony Friday.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010

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