- Title: Pakistan clears team to travel to India
- Date: 11th March 2016
- Summary: ISLAMABAD , PAKISTAN (MARCH 11, 2016) (REUTERS) MOTORCADE CARRYING CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PAKISTAN CRICKET BOARD (PCB), NAJAM SETHI, LEAVE INTERIOR MINISTRY CARS STOPPING NAJAM SETHI WALKING TOWARDS WAITING REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu/ English) NAJAM SETHI, CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PAKISTAN CRICKET BOARD (PCB) SAYING: (Urdu) "An hour ago, Pakistan's High Commissioner in India, Mr. Basit, met the Indian Home Secretary in which he gave all the categorical security assurances that we were seeking. I have just met the Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar. I was sitting there when Mr. Basit informed the minister about this. I also told him about all the correspondence that we have had with all the stake holders. I would like to give you and cricket lovers the good news that Chaudhry Nisar, the interior minister, has given permission to the Pakistan Cricket Board (English) to send the Pakistan cricket team to play the T20 in India on the basis of solid assurances received from Chief Minister Bengal and the Union Home Secretary and the Home Minister." SETHI ADDRESSING MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PAKISTAN CRICKET BOARD, NAJAM SETHI, SAYING: "The team is completely ready, and hopefully they will fly to Dubai tonight or tomorrow, and then from there will leave straight for India." SETHI WALKING AWAY
- Embargoed: 26th March 2016 13:14
- Keywords: Twenty20 World Cup India Pakistan
- Location: ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
- City: ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Cricket,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA00148HIIPR
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Pakistan's Interior Ministry has cleared the national cricket team to travel to India for the World Twenty20, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Friday (March 11).
In Islamabad Najam Sethi, chairman of the executive committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), attended a meeting at the ministry and then stopped his car to address waiting reporters outside.
"An hour ago, Pakistan's High Commissioner in India, Mr. Basit, met the Indian Home Secretary in which he gave all the categorical security assurances that we were seeking," Sethi said. "I have just met the Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar. I was sitting there when Mr. Basit informed the minister about this. I also told him about all the correspondence that we have had with all the stake holders," Sethi continued.
"I would like to give you and cricket lovers the good news that Chaudhry Nisar, the interior minister, has given permission to the Pakistan Cricket Board to send the Pakistan cricket team to play the Twenty20 in India on the basis of solid assurances received from Chief Minister Bengal and the Union Home Secretary and the Home Minister," he said.
He added that the team was ready to leave and would be leaving for Dubai first, in a few hours.
"The team is completely ready, and hopefully they will fly to Dubai tonight or tomorrow, and then from there will leave straight for India," Sethi said.
Pakistan had earlier said its men's and women's cricket teams would travel to India only after New Delhi gave a public guarantee on the safety of its players. Pakistan and India will play each other on March 19 in the tournament with the venue moved from Dharamsala to Kolkata. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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