India will host Pakistan at the 2020 Commonwealth Games, several Indian media outlets reported on Wednesday.

The decision seems to have come to not jeopardised India's chances of hosting the 2036 Olympics by boycotting Pakistan in international events.

"The Government of India was always clear in its stand about playing political enemy Pakistan in multi-lateral tournaments. The Government’s stand is totally vindicated now.

"Boycotting Pakistan would have been detrimental to our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of hosting the Summer Olympics in 2036. We could have attracted a blanket ban like Indonesia from the IOC for hosting any international events. What happened to them could have happened to us,” the official was quoted as saying by the newspaper, according to First Post. They were a

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