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December 8, 2011
The PCB has formed a security plan to present to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in an effort to convince it to send the national team to Pakistan. The PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf will meet his Bangladesh counterpart Mustafa Kamal at the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Singapore next week and in Bangladesh after that.
"We have formed a foolproof security plan and I will explain it to them," Ashraf told the Daily Express. "After the ACC meeting, I will directly fly to Bangladesh to meet with the BCB officials as a part of my campaign to convince them to tour Pakistan."
If the PCB is successful, it would herald the return of international cricket to Pakistan following the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore in March 2009.
Talks of a possible Bangladesh tour of Pakistan could be the by-product of the deal between the PCB and BCB in choosing the next ICC vice-president. The nomination rests with the two countries and Pakistan is reportedly ready to concede its right for an expected tour by Bangladesh in 2012.
The PCB has also been trying to revive cricketing ties with India, and Ashraf was expected to visit India this month to meet with officials from the BCCI. That meeting could now take place on the sidelines of the ACC meeting in Singapore.
According to the ICC's Future Tours Programme, Pakistan are scheduled to tour India for three Tests and five ODIs in March and April next year, but there is uncertainty over whether that series will take place. The two teams have not been involved in a bilateral series since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008.
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