KARACHI:Â Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shahryar Khan has said that Pakistan will tour India in 2016.
In an interview with Indian media, Shahryar Khan said that cricket had an important role in building relationships… and sports and politics should be kept separate.
He also confirmed that India will visit Pakistan at their new home, the UAE, for a bilateral series in December 2015.
He said that under the MoU signed by PCB and the BCCI India and Pakistan are scheduled to play 12 Tests, 30 ODIs and 11 Twenty20s in six series in eight years.
When asked if India will visit Pakistan for a series in the near future, he said, “I hope so,” he replied.
“Because things are getting better. Peshawar and Quetta are not good but the rest of Pakistan is pretty good and safe for cricket. We have now got two or three venues – Karachi and Lahore – where we can seal the area around the stadium. The venues are very good, they are Test playing venues and you have living quarters next door which means all that the cricketers have to do is to take their kit bags and walk across under a tunnel,” he added.
“We have got this in Karachi and Lahore, and we want to do it in Multan and Faislabad. We will then have four venues where you can be absolutely 100 per cent sure that there will be no security threat. The danger is in the travel between the hotel and the stadium, this is what happened to the Sri Lankan team (in 2009).”
He also talked about how the bigger teams have asked to demonstrate safe playing conditions while hosting the associate teams so that they can dispose their faith towards visiting Pakistan.
“If you compare the security situation in the worst times of 2005 to 2008 it is much better now. The incidents of terrorist attacks have gone down and we can prove that. But sometimes you can get the odd. They are few and far between,” said the PCB chief.
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