No proposal to review decision on Pak tour, says govt

The government said on Tuesday that there was no proposal to review its decision on the Indian cricket team's tour of Pakistan next month.

Following reports from Islamabad that the cancelled tour was likely to be revived, official sources said, "There is no proposal at present to review the decision regarding our cricket team's tour of Pakistan."

The government had refused permission to the Board of Control for Cricket in India to send a team on a tour of Pakistan as it said the atmosphere, following the Kargil war and that country's support to militants in Kashmir, was not conducive.

The fresh round of speculation about the tour started after the Pakistan Cricket Board chief, Lieutenant General Tauqir Zia, said in Islamabad on Monday that he had received positive signals that India could go there for a short tour next month.

Gen Zia said Pakistan's representative in the International Cricket Council, Ehsan Mani, had talked to BCCI president A C Muthiah, who reportedly told him that India was planning a short tour of Pakistan.

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