Will Pakistan travel to India for World Cup?

"If India feels there are security issues in Pakistan…" PCB chairman Najam Sethi hits back at BCCI on Asia Cup controversy.

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00:00Our team has a security issue in India because of the communal conditions there.

00:05India's position is that they will not play in Pakistan.

00:09Our position is that if you do this, then we will have to think whether we can come to India for the World Cup or not.

00:30India's position is that if you do this, then we will have to think whether we can come to India for the World Cup or not.

00:35India's position is that if you do this, then we will have to think whether we can come to India for the World Cup or not.

01:00You are travelling to UAE after two days, where there is a meeting of the ICC and the Asian Cricket Council.

01:10Will the Asia Cup be held in Pakistan or will India go to play its match in UAE?

01:14What will you update the people about this and what is the PCB going to do?

01:18This is a very important question and a very difficult question.

01:21There is no easy answer to this.

01:23You know what India's position is.

01:27You know what India's position is in the ICC.

01:30I don't need to repeat this.

01:32You know the reality.

01:34The situation is the same as it was before when I met you.

01:39India's position is that they will not play in Pakistan.

01:43Asia Cup should be shifted from here.

01:46Our position is that if you do this, then we will have to think whether we can come to India for the World Cup or not.

01:53This is also unresolved.

01:55One is the matter of the ICC and the other is the matter of the ACC.

01:58But in the future, the Champions Trophy is also coming.

02:00That is the matter of the ICC.

02:02That is also for Pakistan.

02:04So these are very serious and complex issues.

02:08Now I will have to go to the ICC and ACC and talk there.

02:17And I will have to take some position.

02:19In that, I have asked the government what their position is.

02:26Obviously, if India does not play here and the patron says that it doesn't matter, you go and play the World Cup,

02:38then the government's position will have to be kept in front.

02:44If I think or you tell me that it doesn't matter if India does not come here,

02:49then you shift the Asia Cup and go to play the World Cup.

02:54And if the government says no, then I will have to see the government.

02:58So these are very serious issues.

03:00Now there are news in the newspapers that the government's position is that if India does not play, then we will not play either.

03:08Because I think that there is a lot of weight in this position.

03:13If India says that there is a security issue here, and the whole world says that there is no security issue here,

03:20and I say that our team has a security issue in India because of the kind of communal conditions that are going on there,

03:28then there is a lot of weight on that too.

03:30So all these things will have to be seen now whether or not to take a position in the national interest of Pakistan.

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