Zaka Ashraf. -Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman says future cricketing ties with Bangladesh will depend on whether it becomes the first test-playing country to tour since the deadly gunmen attacks in 2009.

Zaka Ashraf says ''we will have to reconsider our cricketing relations if they don't come'' to play either two one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match or three ODIs later this month or in early May.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board is yet to receive clearance from its government after submitting a security report on Pakistan.

Afghanistan played three ODIs in Pakistan year, becoming the first country to tour since gunmen killed several police officers and a bus driver in their attack on a Sri Lanka team bus during a test in Lahore three years ago.

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