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[caption id="attachment_24041" align="alignnone" width="580"] Abhinav Bindra has urged the sports bodies to respect Government stance on Indo-Pak ties. File Pic.[/caption] Internet Desk: Ace shooter and Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra has urged the sports bodies to respect government’s stance on Indo-Pak ties. Sport and politics should not be mixed in an ideal world but in reality it can't happen in certain cases, feels Bindra amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of Uri terror attack. "At the end of the day, it is the decision of the government. It takes the final call on whether a team can play (against Pakistan) and that call has to be respected," Bindra told PTI on Saturday. So does he feel that politics and sport should be kept separate? "It is a very difficult question. One would hope for that to happen (that sport and politics is not mixed). It is a nice thought it should be separated because that is the Olympic values as well that sport should be free from politics. But today, in reality, it doesn't happen sometimes. One has to take a call from situation to situation and the government's decision has to be respected," said India's only individual Olympic gold medallist. The Indian government has stepped up its efforts to isolate Pakistan globally on all fronts post the Uri attack and it has also impacted the sporting ties between the two neighbours with the BCCI out rightly ruling out resumption of cricketing ties and Pakistan's Kabaddi team not taking part in the ongoing World Cup in Ahmedabad. With inputs from PTI