India’s IT minister has picked a fight with Wikipedia after alleging that Pakistani entities edited a page describing a member of the men’s national cricket team in ways that suggest the player has separatist affiliations.
The edit happened after India’s national team lost a game against Pakistan. Despite being neighbors and probably the world’s two nations most interested in cricket, political tension means India and Pakistan seldom play against each other save in multilateral tournaments. Just such a tournament – the 2022 Asia Cup – is currently under way and weekend clash between the two sides saw Pakistan triumph.
During the match, Indian player Arshdeep Singh dropped a catch that should not have been difficult for a professional athlete to complete.
Indian cricket fans are not exempt from the kind of social media excesses that can be found elsewhere and he was roundly criticized for his effort. But on Wikipedia matters went to a different level because Singh’s page was edited to – falsely – state he had been picked to play for Khalistan, a notional independent homeland for Sikhs.
The implication of the edit is that Singh’s loyalties may not lie with India, which could explain why he dropped the catch. That the edit appears to have been made by someone from Pakistan, which India asserts is constantly attempting to destabilize it and/or promote sectarian violence, made the edit more controversial.
India’s IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar took exception with the edit and...
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