India: 66 students expelled for cheering on Pakistan cricket team

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(foxnews) LUCKNOW, India – Dozens of Kashmiri students were expelled from their university and threatened with sedition charges because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a televised match against India, police said Thursday.

Authorities were trying to track down the 66 students for questioning to determine whether sedition charges are appropriate, police officer N.K.S. Chauhan said. Sedition carries a possible life sentence.

Love of cricket -- a legacy of Britain's long colonial role -- is one of the few things on which Pakistan and India can usually agree, despite a long history of mutual animosity that has fueled three wars since the subcontinent's bloody partition in 1947.

But the fracas over Sunday's match -- which Pakistan won -- shows how easily passions are inflamed over Kashmir, a divided Himalayan territory that both countries claim. Insurgents have been fighting for Kashmir's independence or its merger with Pakistan since 1989.