"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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