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"I can't say for certain if someone has influenced them but yes there is no doubt that India has been working on a policy of undermining and isolating Pakistan since the Mumbai attacks," he told 'Geo Super' channel.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) informed their Pakistan counterparts on Wednesday that they could not host the Pakistan team because of security issues in their country and as their government had not given clearance for the series of five one-dayers and two Twenty20 matches.
The Pakistan team was due to tour Bangladesh from March 7 but just two days prior to their departure, the tour was postponed by the BCB, which had later asked for time to get clearance from their government.
Zia also came down hard on Bangladesh government and their BCB for being ungrateful to Pakistan by not coming to their aid in their time of need.
"I can only say the Bangladesh government and Cricket Board should have kept in mind how Pakistan has supported them and done for their cricket in the past," he said.
"After all that we have done for them they have not repaid us in the same way. It is disappointing and sad," he added.
The former PCB Chairman, who was active in the Kargil operation, however, felt that the government of Bangladesh should have realised how important it was for Pakistan to get some international cricket at this stage.
"We have done a lot for Bangladesh cricket and when I was Chairman the ICC was intent on stripping them of their Test status and I was the only person who spoke up for Bangladesh and Zimbabwe and garnered support from other members to stop them of being deprived of test status," he said.
He pointed out that Pakistan was not one of those nations which made security an issue and they would have toured Bangladesh once given clearance by the host country no matter what the situation would have been there.
Zia agreed that the cancellation of the Bangladesh tour was a big setback for Pakistan cricket which was already reeling from the attack on the Sri Lankan team.
"Realistically speaking I don't see any team coming to Pakistan at least for the next two years and we should concentrate on arranging our series at neutral venues and playing abroad," he said.
Zia said the PCB also needed to formulate a parallel strategy to convince teams that the security situation was good enough for teams to tour Pakistan.
"Our cricket is in a crisis and we need to work hard to get out of this phase," he said.
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These Paki LtGenerals will be a great hiot asmembers of the PakiCircus troupe.-as clowns. First we hadthat prizebufoon Lt Gen HamidGul of Paki Trecherous Heathen ISI who blamed India and RAW fortheattack on the Lankan cricketeersanand now it is this bufoon Lt General TauquirZiawho is coming out with this fantastic allegation.IfIndiain intellegenceagenciesare that good wewould have captured ArabindaRajkhuovaand AnupChetailong Timeao and would not have allowed the HUJI to behave so trecherously
Lt. Gen Tauqir Zia, Do you have any sense prevailing in your head or not? Or do you still think as a military dictator like Zia Ul Haq and his predecessors? You can blame India for cancelling Pakistan teams' tour of Bangladesh. What a shame on you and on world of sports and cricketing nations, if they can not contain such illogical and irresponsible person like you. Better think before you speak. or stay in your barracks!! People of Pakistan have already disowned military and have embraced democracy. Better wake up and behave as a gentleman general!!!. Krishan K Pawla USA
Bismillah Rahmane Rahim,Please remember the ISI just tried to reassert west Pakistans control on hapless Bangladeshis by a BDR mutinee.Have you forgotten your role of Massacares In East Pakistan and killings and rapes of Bengolis in 1971.
Thank god A BJP member wasnt BCCI head ,if aT ALL THE l english media would have reported this as headlines and particularly 24x7 would have 23 hrs dissscusing this ,
May be all is not lost....PCB should arrange a triangularseries between Paki XI, JeT and JeM. Javed, Lakhvi, and Imran could be respective team coach. The event to be sponsored by Dawood and Company! In addition to "man of the series" there will also be an award for "man with the longest beard".
That's a good one ! I suggest Musharraf should play the match referee.
India got Bangladesh its freedom but that did not stop Bangla from allowing Pakis to operate from their soil against India. With the latest turn of events, the Pakis are at the receiving end. The BDR mutiny was promoted by the Paki ISI. With this fact well established, had the Paki cricketers gone to Bangladesh, they would have been butchered. They should be thankful the tour was called off.
I think PCB should prevail upon thier all weather friends like china , north korea to play cricket so that thier team can tour Pakisthan to give the latter some international cricket.PCB chairman should know that it is an insult to the soverienity of Bangla Desh govt to allude they can be influenced by India.Current events show that Pakisthan has surrendered its soverienity to USA and PCB chairman should not think every other country is like Pakisthan
you pakis should have thought about it when you try to destabilize bangladesh with terror organization like Jamaat-e-Islami and instigating BDR mutiny
this man is sick or what. or does he think he's playing doll house. pakistan has been undermining bangladesh for a long time and now when his own kind refuses to play he's got a scapegoat. clean your house first ,fool. instead of burning with jealousy. it's precisely this fire in you that's hurting you today. what goes round comes round