Wellington: New Zealand’s crickary official on Saturday threw a veil of confidentiality over a security threat that imposed sudden cancellations from their Pakistan tour.
According to the Minister of Home Affairs Pakistan Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Pakistani leader Imran Khan that the team was afraid of attacks outside the stadium.
The cancellation is a big setback for Pakistan, who has tried to revive the tour with a foreign side after an international home was suspended after a terror attack on Sri Lanka in 2009.
Announcement on Friday that this series had been called the same as the first One-Day International will begin at Rawalpindi Stadium, 10 kilometers (six miles) from the hotel team in Islamabad.
In a short public statement, Ardern said the New Zealand government supports cancellations as “the safety of players must be the most important”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who have been related to Cricket New Zealand, said there was a sustainable and significant threat from terrorism throughout Pakistan “but would not comment on certain security issues.” New Zealand cricket made his own security decision and had his own security settings for all international tours , “said a ministry spokesman outside the hotel hotel in Karachi killed 14 people, including 11 French naval engineers.
A New Zealand crickary official told AFP.
There are no further comments planned “at this point” and will not say if the security threat causes cancellation Expand to the Pakistani cricket board or the country plays another cricket.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said they would decide in the next 48 hours whether to withdraw from the planned tour for next month, while West Indies and Australia were also scheduled for the tour in the next six months.
The Minister of Home Affairs of Pakistan Ahmad insisted, “There was no threat to cricket in Pakistan, there was no threat to New Zealand and there was no threat to England”.
New Zealand was in Pakistan for the first time since 2003 and is scheduled to play three ODIs, followed by five matches twenty20.