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Attacks and Bomb blasts have left minimum over 180 people dead in an apparent reaction to the army’s storming of the Lal Masjid and Jameya Hafsa in Islamabad, earlier this month.

Director Operations of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Zakir Khan explained that we are preparing for all the tours and have no feelings that anyone has shown reservations or concerns, Moreover he added that an six-man Australian security delegation have came up to Pakistan and inspected the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium and we have received no such reservations or concerns from South Africa. Australian senior team is also due to tour Pakistan in March-April next year, their first visit to the Pakistan in ten years.

It has been the history of Aussies, South African and other non-Asian nations to abandon the series on the slightest shade of elusive dangers. Whether its a fear of Tamil Tigers in Srilanka, or the Mao or Nagaland or Kashmiri separtists in India or the millitants in Pakistan, they tend to cancel the series on their whims. Asian board should devise a strategy to ask for compensations from the board which cancel the tours.

South Africa, due to tour Pakistan for two Tests and five September-October this year, has however expressed concerns over the crises in Pakistan. General Manager of Cricket South Africa (CSA) Brian Basson said that cricket bosses were apprehensive about these crises in Pakistan but their tour was still on.

The Chief of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Dr. Nasim Ashraf earlier this week brushed aside security reservations in Pakistan. Dr. Nasim has said that Pakistan is as safe as Sydney and we are confident that our home series will not be affected with these crises. We still have time and hope things will settle down.

South Africa have confirmed a tour itinerary in which they play a Test in Karachi also a one-day match in Peshawar – both venues rejected by international teams in the recent past over security fears as foreign teams also avoided playing in Pakistan in the wake of 9/11 incidents.

The West Indies and Australia refused to tour Pakistan and only agreed to play their series at neutral venues. New Zealand were also forced to cut short a tour after a bomb blast near their team hotel in Karachi killed 14 people, including 11 French naval staff in May 2002.

Pakistanis should stop pleading and show a indifferent yet confident face to anyone who refuses to play with us in our country.