Mahmood, in whose tenure Pakistan made a complete excursion of India in 1999 and who himself visited the neighboring nation in 1989 as supervisor of the junior crew, mentioned it made no sense to shape this committee.
“The interesting thing is that no representative of the main stakeholder, the Pakistan Cricket Board, is on the committee,” Mahmood mentioned in an interview.
He cautioned that this used to be now not the time to hyperlink Pakistan’s participation within the World Cup to the Asia Cup being held in Pakistan.
“While I agree that there is no justification for India not to tour Pakistan now but this is not the way things are done at the international level.”
Mahmood mentioned through forming this committee of ministers, the federal government had contradicted itself its coverage of now not blending politics with sports activities.
“If you say that we are looking at security situation before deciding to send team to India, that makes sense, but to say openly that if India doesn’t come to Pakistan then we will also not send team to India for World Cup, is mixing both things, which we have never done.”
Mahmood additionally puzzled the desire for the deep involvement of the federal government within the PCB affairs and on whether or not to ship the crew for the World Cup.
“When I was chairman in 1999, despite threats from India, we assessed the security situation for our team ourselves, by sending a delegation to India and advised the government we were willing to go to India.”
He mentioned the practical factor to do now used to be to make sure the Pakistan crew took phase within the mega tournament or it would finally end up dealing with sanctions and in addition members of the family with different forums could be soured.
Mahmood mentioned no matter choice Najam Sethi had taken as chairman of the Cricket Management Committee at the Asia Cup will have to be venerated now.
“I expect Zaka Ashraf to face an uncomfortable situation, when he attends the ICC meetings later this week, because of the formation of this committee and the statement made by minister, Ahsan Mazari.”