{"id":97319,"date":"2026-01-13T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97319"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:54:02","slug":"india-rejects-visas-of-four-american-players-citing-pakistani-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/india-rejects-visas-of-four-american-players-citing-pakistani-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"India rejects visas of four American players citing Pakistani roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A new controversy has emerged before the start of the T20 World Cup to be held in India.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian visa applications of Pakistani-American cricketers have been rejected.<\/p>\n<p>According to Indian media, the visa applications of 4 players of the US cricket team have been rejected.<\/p>\n<p>These players include Ehsan Adil, Shayan Jahangir, Ali Khan, and Mohammad Mohsin.<\/p>\n<p>After the visa rejection, questions began to be raised about the participation and preparations of the US cricket team in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This decision is being called against the principle of keeping sports separate from politics.<\/p>\n<p>American fast bowler Ali Khan also shared a story on the social media platform Instagram regarding the visa rejection. After which, the matter became the center of attention.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no official response from the Indian authorities or the International Cricket Council (ICC) in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A new controversy has emerged before the start of the T20 World Cup to be held in India. The Indian visa applications of Pakistani-American cricketers have been rejected. According to Indian media, the visa applications of 4 players of the US cricket team have been rejected. These players include Ehsan Adil, Shayan Jahangir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":19311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,33681],"class_list":["post-97319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-india","tag-pakistani-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97320,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97319\/revisions\/97320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}