Australian Cricketers are on the edge of almost a month before their first tour in Pakistan in 24 years, amid terror attacks in the Asian country, Sydney Morning Herald reported on Wednesday.
“We all toy about it,” a source close to the team told the newspaper, using the term informal Australia because of anxious or worried.
Australia is scheduled to play three tests, three international matches one day and one twenty-year match in Pakistan starting 3.
Australia has not carried out a Pakistani tour since 1998 due to security issues, instead of playing away matches in the United Arab Emirates.
Although some of the international tours have returned to Pakistan in recent years, New Zealand suddenly stopped touring there in September quoting security and English issues as soon as it was.
Increased attacks because the Taliban regained control of neighboring Afghanistan in August also had not yet helped increase self-confidence.
Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said terrorist incidents had increased more than one third because the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, local media reported.
A broken bomb blast of a crowded market https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bomb-blast-kills-3-people-as Tern-Pakistan-police-2022-01-20 in East Pakistan on Thursday , killing three people and injuring more than 20, police said.
A newly formed separatist group based in West Balochistan Province claims responsibility for attacks in text messages sent to Reuters reporter.