This was the ‘Black Caps’ first tour to Pakistan since 2003. (AFP Photo)
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, mentioned in a assertion that nothing was paramount than the security of gamers.
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The New Zealand group will fly out of Pakistan in a chartered flight on Saturday, even because the cricket neighborhood is fuming over the sudden and unilateral choice of the guests to abandon the tour due to a safety risk. Pakistan Cricket Board CEO Wasim Khan confirmed that a chartered flight shall be approaching Saturday to take the New Zealand group. “It is a very unhappy factor that has occurred right now,” Khan said. The cricketing world and Pakistanis were left shocked on Friday after just minutes before the start of the first One-Day International between the two teams at the Pindi stadium, New Zealand Cricket CEO David White announced that they were calling their team back after receiving advice of a serious security threat.
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But PCB Chairman, Ramiz Raja and Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed both said that the New Zealand board had not shared the security threat report with them. Not surprisingly, Pakistan’s cricket community was fuming and some former stalwarts waded into New Zealand for causing untold harm to Pakistan cricket.
The Pakistan government and security officials are understandably upset at Friday’s development as besides 4000 policemen, commandos of the Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group (SSG) were also deployed for the matches in Rawalpindi. The interior minister said at a press conference that they had even tried to convince New Zealand to play the match without spectators. “But they did not agree to it,” he disclosed.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, nonetheless, mentioned in a assertion that nothing was paramount than the security of gamers. She mentioned she might perceive the frustration in Pakistan however the safety risk was such that it couldn’t be ignored.
England males’s and girls’s groups at the moment are due to tour Pakistan in October.
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