Pakistan Has Boycotted The 44th Chess Olympiad Going To be Hosted By India

 Pakistan Has Boycotted The 44th Chess Olympiad

Pakistan has recently boycotted the 44^th Chess Olympiad that was supposed to take place in Chennai in India. India is hosting the Chess Olympiad in which chess players all over the world will participate. Pakistan has boycotted the event. In this article we will discuss about the reasons why Pakistan boycotted the event.

As the torch in the Olympics is marched for inauguration of the event, in the same way the torch of Chess Olympiad is also marched in various parts of India including Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has objected this thing stating that as according to them Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, marching torch of an international event is not acceptable to them and hence Pakistan Officially called for the boycott of the event.

So does the Boycotting of the event by the event by Pakistan will have any effect on it. Well not at all, Pakistan has produced zero grandmaster of chess in its entire history and chess is not very popular in Pakistan. So rarely anyone plays chess in Pakistan. No other country other than Pakistan has called for the boycott of the event, not even its close friend China.

Also there is another reason for the boycott of the event by Pakistan, it is its internal politics. If the Pakistan government doesn’t oppose India in every now and then, then the government might loose public support and eventually they might end loosing the election. So it becomes very important for Pakistan to oppose India in every matter.