Maintaining his strong opposition to the Pakistani cricket team&#39;s India tour, Shiv Sena today said it was a matter of &quot;national shame&quot;. <img alt="Bal Thackeray" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/aug/thackeray.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 473px; " /> Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray (File pic) &quot;The Pakistan team will be playing matches at Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru. At one point or the other, Pak terrorists have attacked these cities,&quot; Thackeray said.u00a0 The feet of Pakistani players wont be touching Maharashtra but their tour of these cities is a matter of national shame, he said, in an editorial in the party&#39;s mouthpiece. Thackeray also flayed BCCI, saying &quot;it was betraying the country for sake of money&quot; and our cricketers were part of the betrayal. Referring to Pakistan&#39;s role in 26/11 and Parliament attacks, Thackeray said playing against Pak cricketers is an insult to our martyr jawans. Thackeray also criticised Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, saying he had &quot;offered his services to Pakistan&quot; by giving green signal for the Pak tour to India. &quot;Except for Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, no one opposed playing cricket with Pakistan,&quot; he said. The Home Ministry on October 30 had cleared Pakistan cricket team&#39;s tour of India for a limited-over series beginning December 25. The Raj Thackeray-led MNS has also opposed the Pak cricket tour. &quot;Raj saheb had already declared that we will not allow any India-Pak match in Maharashtra,&quot; MNS MLA Shishir Shinde said. In October 1991, Shinde, who was then with Shiv Sena, had dug up the pitch at Wankhede stadium to protest against an India-Pak match which was scheduled to be held there.u00a0

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today said that given Pakistan's role in 26/11 and Parliament attacks, playing against Pak cricketers was an insult to our martyrs.

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