Fazal Mahmood, ex-captain: Indian and Pakistani cricketers must be given another chance to prove that they can do more to bring the two countries closer than their bigoted politicians.
Maulana Hafiz Mansoor: Why should we play with Hindus when their soldiers are killing our youth, raping our women and are involved in all kinds of atrocities in occupied Kashmir?
Chishti Mujahid, commentator: Abandoning the tour would be encouraging the insane elements of societyand abandoning cricket between the two countries for years and years to come.
Arif Abbasi, ex-administrator: If militants can dig up a pitch in the capital right under the nose of the Indian government, where does the players' safety stand?
Fareshta Gati-Aslam, journalist: The tour must go on. If you give in to these lunatics, there is no end to it. It will happen in Pakistan as well.
Omar Kureishi, commentator: There is no such thing as foolproof security. If there was, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would not have been killed, and there would be no terrorism.
Sikander Bakht, ex-cricketer: Going there is important, and can be very embarrassing for the Indian government.... A nuclear power, and they cannot control a person like Bal Thackeray!
Haroon Rashid, ex-coach: Politics and cricket are two different things. If we have differences on political issues, we must not drag cricket into it.
Hanif Mohammed, ex-captain: The tour must go on. Otherwise, it will seal the future of cricket between the two best teams in the world. At least in India and Pakistan.
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Khizar Hayat, umpire: It is not a matter of courage or scoring points; it is a matter of life and death for cricket.
Naseerullah Babar, politician: Our team must go to India. That is the only we can tell the world who is more democratic.
Imtiaz Ahmed Sipra, journalist: It may help overcome the great period of illusion the two countries have forced on themselves by going nuclear.
Hasib Ahsan, former selector: What will we achieve by going when we are so unwelcome?