Pakistan Cricket Board chairman expresses hope of playing India again

Shaharyar Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has expressed his hope that there can be a resumption of bilateral cricket ties with India in the United Arab Emirates later this year.

“The security situation is improving very fast [in Pakistan] but right now India won’t be able to come for a full tour,” Khan told the Headlines Today news channel after a meeting with the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s president Jagmohan Dalmiya. “There is much hope and expectation that the series will take place in December in the UAE. We want to make sure this happens now.

If the approval of the government is required, fine. But we should make a very clear decision because our public and the entire world wants to see Pakistan and India play each other.”Pakistan has not hosted international cricket since a terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team at Lahore in 2009 and India suspended bilateral ties after Pakistani militants killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008. Pakistan toured India for a short limited-overs series in 2012-13, but there has been no series between the neighbours since.