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ICC Champions Trophy: Quick Visas To Indian Fans If They Travel To Pakistan, PCB Assures

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi said the board was expecting a positive response from Indian fans to visit Pakis𝓰tan for next year's Champions Trophy

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PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who is also the federal interior minister, on Friday assured a brisk visa issuance policy for Indian fans wanting to visit Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy early next year. (More Cricket News)

He made the assurances dur𝔉ing a meeting with a group of Sikh pilgrims from the United State.

Naqvi said the PCB was expecting a positive response from Indian fans to visit Pakistan for the Champions Tro🍰phy.

"We will be keeping a special quota of tiܫckets for Indian fans and we will try to make the visa🍷 issuance policy brisk," Naqvi was quoted as saying by a newspaper.

Naqvi said that the PCB would like to see Indian fans v💃isit Pakistan and waꩲtch the Indian and Pakistan match in Lahore.

Pakistan is scheduled to host the ICC mega event in February-March 2025 but until now the ICC has still not released the tournament schedule as tဣhey wait on confirmation if the Indian government would allow its team to travel to Pakistan for the event.

The BCCI has made it clear it has to follow any policy deღcision of their government whe🅷n it comes to visiting Pakistan.

No Indian team has travelled to Pakistan since 2008 Mumbai terror attack. There has been🌠 no Test series between the two countrieཧs since 2007.

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