Pakistan’s participation in the ICC World Cup remains under wraps; high profile panel to take call on participation

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Pakistan has set up a 14-member high profile committee to decide whether Pakistan’s cricket team will participate in the ICC World Cup in India scheduled to begin in October. The committee will be led by the country’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, reported TOI. Given the relations between the two neighbors, the participation of the national cricket team depends on the clearance from the government, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) informed the International Cricket Council (ICC). On June 27, PCB had written to PM Shehbaz Sharif, also the patron-in-chief of Pakistan’s cricket board seeking his advice on whether the team should travel to India. It is in response to this letter that PM Sharif formed the panel and assigned them the task for coming up with recommendations on the matter. India’s refusal to participate in the Asia cup being hosted by Pakistan has put PCB in a spot.

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PM Sharif will take the final call based on the panel’s recommendations. The committee includes the foreign minister, several other ministers, heads of security and intelligence agencies, and representatives from political parties in the coalition government. In addition to this, PCB’s letter to PM Sharif requested guidance on venues for the national team’s matches in India and whether the government wanted to consider sending a security delegation along with the team. PCB’s chief operating officer Salman