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In this exclusive discussion, Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar (Retd) analyzes the tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban. Should the International Cricket Council (ICC) consider banning Pakistan as Pakistan strikes kill three Afghan cricketers in Paktika?

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00:00We saw that three cricketers, Afghan cricketers were killed as you just mentioned.
00:05Do you think that this is the time when ICC must review the security situation
00:09of the entire region and ban Pakistan from playing at all?
00:14You have a strong point because I think the Afghan cricket team has already
00:18returned from Pakistan. They were to play some tournament there I believe and
00:22they were there and they have come back from that. So I think that is a start point
00:27and a stage will come. I think the ICC where the chairmanship is with India now
00:35should take a common sense and Afghanistan Cricket Council should put across this
00:41point in a very strong manner because unless this comes from Afghanistan
00:45ICC will not be able to technically take any action. So Afghanistan must take it up
00:53in an official manner with ICC and I'm sure that this is a very strong case to ban Pakistan
01:03from all ICC events and it will be a kind of a message to all countries in this world
01:10who are supporting terrorism.
01:12We will see more pan out in the next couple of days. Negotiators from both the countries
01:18Afghanistan and Pakistan are already going to Doha to discuss about the situation to try
01:24and de-escalate it. But do you think we can see a full-blown war between the countries
01:30given the fact that Taliban doesn't have much of air power. We don't know much about the
01:35fighter jets, how many of them Taliban has but it mostly relies as you just mentioned on
01:40guerrilla warfare. Do you think that this situation can turn into a full-blown war?
01:45See, comparison of the armies is there's hardly anything because Pakistan army is 6.5 lakhs.
01:55They are only 1.5 and they don't have any much of air power. I think 23 light attack American
02:03aircrafts are there and they have some helicopters, 30 or 40 of them attack helicopters which have
02:13been left by the Americans and they have a problem of spares. I believe now Russia is helping them
02:18with the spares. They have those T-52 and T-72 tanks also with the Russian origin are there.
02:25But you see, I don't think they can match. But then you see, Pakistan cannot fight a conventional war
02:31there. Because first of all, Pakistan doesn't have the logistics to fight a war for a long duration.
02:38It can go inside and it can fight for a few days. Then remember Pakistan has got another front with
02:45India right now and which is quite hot. And I, you know, I would be surprised it would be
02:51President Anushish for me to say that possibly if Pakistan does that, that India has a very
02:58ripe opportunity to hit Pakistan at this point of time. Because this would be the best opportunity
03:04for a Pitzer-like movement because from the west side also and from the east side also both
03:12get engaged. But I don't think there will be a war.
03:21But I think there will be a war.
03:25We will have the war.
03:27The war is a war.
03:30That was a war.
03:44A war war is a war.
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