Pakistan has determined to ship its nationwide cricket group to India to take part on this 12 months’s 50-over World Cup, the international workplace stated on Sunday.
The neighbouring international locations, who share fraught relations, have performed one another solely in multi-team occasions at impartial venues during the last decade.
“Pakistan has consistently maintained that sports should not be mixed with politics….Pakistan believes that the state of bilateral relations with India should not stand in the way of fulfilling its international sports-related obligations,” the international workplace assertion stated.
India, which hosts the World Cup in October and November, has dominated out travelling to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, which is scheduled to start on August 31.
Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was among the many international ministers who travelled to India’s Goa final month for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) assembly, changing into the primary senior Pakistani chief to go to India in 9 years.
The neighbours have fought three wars and have had a lot of army skirmishes in recent times. The two nuclear-armed neighbours each management components of the disputed Himalayan area of Kashmir however declare it in full.
Pakistan’s international workplace stated it had issues about its cricket group’s safety through the match and would convey them to the International Cricket Council and Indian authorities.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
