Home Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Friday that there is a ‘conspiracy’ behind it to be cancelled About New Zealand’s tour of Pakistan – the team’s first in 18 years.
Responding to a question, Ahmed declined to name the country responsible for the conspiracy, but termed the cancellations as “an attempt to sabotage our efforts for peace in the region”.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the minister said the security in-charge of the New Zealand team spoke to government officials in the morning and briefed them about the danger. He said that when officials asked for more details, there was “no one” in New Zealand’s security charge.
Pakistan was deployment of Ahmed said that Pakistan Army’s Special Service Group (SSG) commandos, jawans and 4,000 policemen for the matches to be held in Rawalpindi.
“We also tried to persuade them to play the match without spectators, but they did not agree to it,” he said.
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