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India to assess security for Pak tour

January 18, 2004 15:16 IST
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TheĀ Board of Control for Cricket in India will send a team of security experts to Pakistan next month to review arrangements for India's first tour to that country in 14 years.

"We have not been informed about the exact dates but they are coming some time next month," said Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan on Sunday.

India are scheduled to play three Tests and five one-day internationals in Pakistan between early March and mid-April, their first visit there since a drawn four-match series in 1989-90.

Although India's security concerns have heightened following a bomb blast in front of an Anglican cathedral in Karachi on Thursday that resulted in 11 people being wounded, Khan said the PCB had already guaranteed tight security for India's tour.

"If they (the Indian board) want more assurances, we are ready to give it," he added. "Our government is behind us and, rest assured, they (India) would be comfortable in the series."

Cricket relations between the two neighbouring countries have been suspended since 1999, due to political tensions over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

The only match India and Pakistan have played in the last three years was at the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, where India won by six wickets.

The two nuclear-armed nations went to the brink of war in 2002 but the Indian government last October restored full sporting ties with Pakistan.

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