Right after morning prayers on a Saturday this month, members of the Masjid Quba mosque in the Brooklyn borough of New York City joined a party.
In between bites of halwa and sips of chai at Lahori Chilli on the edge of the Midwood neighborhood - the center of Little Pakistan - patrons offered hopeful, yet measured, commentary. Pakistan was taking on India, its fiercest on-field and geopolitical rival, during the men's cricket World Cup in India.
