Pakan await security delegation nod for World Cup in India | Cricket News

The Pakan Cricket Board (PCB) is expected to get clearance for sending its national team for the 50-over World Cup, provided that a security delegation visits India first and gives its nod.
Prime miner Shehbaz Sharif has formed a committee to review and decide on Pakan’s participation in the World Cup. The committee is due to meet for the first time on Thursday under the chairmanship of foreign miner Bilawal Bhutto.
Zaka Ashraf, the chairman of the PCB Management Committee, will also attend the meeting.
“The committee is expected to recommend that a high-level security delegation be sent to India to visit all the venues, where the Pakan team is scheduled to play its World Cup matches and review all the security and other arrangements,” a source close to the committee said.
The 14-member committee includes various miners and advisers, including the foreign miner, the interior miner, the law miner, the Inter-Provincial Coordination miner, the information and broadcasting miner, adviser on Kashmir affairs, adviser on establishment, the foreign secretary, PSPM, as well as representatives from secret agencies and other sensitive departments.
The source added that in principle, there was no objection to Pakan playing in India, but the committee wanted assurance that the players, officials, fans and media would not face any problems.
Pakan last travelled to India during the 2016 World T20 Cup.

The two countries have not engaged in bilateral cricket since 2012-13 and the last Test series was held in India in 2007.