New Zealand Cricket silent on security threat ending Pakistan tourHeavy security has been deployed in Pakistan to escort the visiting New Zealand players and their hostsWELLINGTON - New Zealand Cricket officials on Saturday threw a veil of secrecy over the security threat that forced the abrupt cancellation of their Pakistan tour. "New Zealand Cricket makes its own security decisions and has its own security arrangements in place for all international tours," a ministry spokesman said. When New Zealand Cricket first announced it was abandoning the Pakistan tour, it said the decision followed "a New Zealand government security alert" and advice from its own security advisers. A New Zealand Cricket official told AFP no further comment was planned "at this juncture" and would not say if the security threat that caused the cancellation had been passed to the Pakistan Cricket Board or any other cricket-playing nation. Pakistan's interior minister Ahmad was adamant there was "no threat to cricket in Pakistan, there was no threat to New Zealand and there is no threat to England".

Source: Bangkok Post September 18, 2021 00:33 UTC