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The Pakistan Cricket Board has asked the government to give sufficient security for the visiting Afghanistan side.
After a television channel showed the Afghanistan team travelling in a bus in Rawalpindi with only a police mobile escort it with three officers on board, the PCB has requested that security be enlarged for the visiting team.
In March 2009, militants attack the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore and killed six Pakistani policemen and a van driver besides hurtful five Lankan players. The attack led to Pakistan becoming a remote cricket nation as far as teams coming to play in the country is worried.
The Afghanistan team is the first foreign team to visit Pakistan since the 2009 event which was blamed on insufficient security preparations by the police and administration.
But a board official said it was in constant touch with the law enforcement agencies and government over security being provided to the Afghan players. "We are in stroke with the government over the security arrangements. We are coordinating with them but the liability of providing the security is with the police and other security agencies," he said.
"Because of the existing situation in the country where militants are target security agencies and police as part of their activist activities the law enforcement agencies don't want to be famous in their presence around the Afghanistan team by having uniformed policemen to guard the players," the official claimed.
"But we have been certain there are sufficient plain clothed officers as long as security cover to the Afghan players," he added. Board Chairman Ijaz Butt has used the one-day series between Afghanistan and Pakistan 'A' to make a keen appeal to the cricket world to support Pakistan by sending teams to the country.
Butt has said the board was capable of organising international matches even in the current situation with the help of the government.
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