September 16, 2003	Tuesday	Rajab 18, 1424

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LAHORE, Sept 15: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is to stick to its schedule of the South African tour to Pakistan and will not shift the matches from Karachi and Peshawar to any other city.

PCB chief executive Ramiz Hasan Raja said while talking to journalists at the Gaddafi Stadium on Monday that the board was very much clear on the issue and there was no possibility of making any change in it.

 South Africa is due to arrive here on Sept 22 to play three One-day and as many Test matches. But the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) showed security concern for two cities Karachi and Peshawar and requested PCB to shift the matches to other safer places.

Ramiz said that PCB was receiving positive signals from South Africa and hopefully a better result would come after the current visit of three member-delegation of that country to Pakistan which is here to check the security arrangements at two cities.

He said that South Africa had made a proposal to PCB to get insurance of its team as no insurance company was ready for this task in their country.” PCB is negotiating with an insurance company in Pakistan but so far no final decision has been taken”.

Commenting on the Pak-Indo cricket relation Ramiz said that PCB only decided to send its Under-23 team to Sri Lanka after India okayed its junior team tour to Pakistan in November.