India, Pakistan hockey players shake hands at Malaysia meet

In a break from the recent template set by the country's men and women cricketers, the Indian junior men's hockey team players exchanged pleasantries with their counterparts from Pakistan in the Sultan of Johor Cup competition in Malaysia on Tuesday.

In videos and photos that have gone viral, the U-21 players from both sides can be seen greeting each other and doing high-fives, after the "no handshake" row that dominated headlines recently.

The gesture by the junior hockey players of the two teams came after the men's and women's cricket teams of India and Pakistan opted for "no-handshake" policy during their respective matches in the Asia Cup in the UAE and a World Cup game in Colombo, months after the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack and the retaliatory military offensive by India on "terror infrastructure" in Pakistan.

In all the matches in Asia Cup, there was no handshakes between the captains or the India and Pakistan teams before or after the matches ended. India won all the matches, including in the final.