New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi late on Tuesday announced to start a Pakistan-India cricket series to improve relations.
Modi during a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party meeting sadi “We have taken the decision to start a cricket series between both countries to improve our relations”.
According to sources in BJP added that despite reservations by some BJP MPs about a proposed cricket series, Modi is determined to break the ice.
Earlier on Sunday, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shahryar Khan had said that Pakistan wants to host the first bilateral Test tour by India in eight years in the United Arab Emirates in December.
The tour, comprising three Tests, five one-dayers and two Twenty20 games is part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two boards last year to play five series in the next eight years.
