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India and Pakistan are rivals in many things. Perhaps their biggest rivalry is over the game of cricket. Over 300 million Indians and Pakistanis can an important game between the two countries on television. They now a new source of competition – to the world record for the most people to a national anthem together. India was the world record holder earlier in 2012, when 15,243 people in Maharashtra state to sing India’s anthem, 'Jan Gan Man'. Pakistan the record in October after 44,200 people the Pakistani anthem, Qaumī Tarana in Lahore. India to the record on Sunday with up to 125,000 singers at Kanpur's Green Park stadium.

The new world record is still not official. The team from the Guinness World Records to study the event before it India the title of world record holder. One of the organisers, Sumit Makhija, said so many people to sing that he was about safety. He told the BBC News agency: "We'd a target of 100,000 people to break Pakistan's world record. However, when over 125,000 people gathered, we were to the programme early…to a stampede.” Rajesh Chandra, one of the singers at the event, also to the BBC to explain his pride at being a record breaker. He said: "It was a proud moment for me to , beat Pakistan, and set a world record".