Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a high-level committee to decide on the team’s participation in the ODI World Cup 2023 in India. The chairman of the committee is Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, Sports Minister Ahsan Mazari and other members. Pakistan was reluctant to participate in this prestigious tournament in India without the approval of the government.
The committee will reportedly submit its recommendations to the PM after exploring and discussing aspects of Pakistan-India relations, government’s policy of keeping sports and policy separate from each other and India’s status as host country for players, officials, fans . Media.
The committee also includes Maryam Aurangzeb, Asad Mahmood, Amin ul Haq, Qamar Zaman Kaira and former diplomat Tariq Fatmi.
Zaka Ashraf and Salman Taseer will attend the ICC meeting
Notably, Zaka Ashraf, the interim chairman of the PCB Management Committee, and Salman Taseer, the chief operating officer, will leave for Durban to attend ICC meetings. Ashraf is expected to discuss India’s repeated refusal to send its team to Pakistan citing security reasons
PCB wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for approval for the tournament
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the full schedule of the World Cup at a special event in Mumbai on 27 June. But Pakistan had written to its Prime Minister on 26 June seeking approval for the tournament in India.
“Immediately after the announcement of the World Cup schedule last Tuesday, we wrote to our patron, Honorable Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, through the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC), requesting approval, copying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior participate in the World Cup,” the PCB had earlier reported.
Also, Pakistan will send a security delegation to India to inspect the stadiums. Babar AzamThe team of will be playing. Pakistan’s World Cup matches will be held at five venues in India. They will play all the matches in the ten-nation tournament in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru. The much-awaited India vs Pakistan match is all set to take place in Ahmedabad on 15 October.