Ehsan Mani, the former ICC president, has said “What I fear is that Pakistan is being pushed to the brink of isolation”. “It’s time that the PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) comes out with an effective strategy. It will have to consolidate relations with other Test-playing nations”.

“India refused to tour Pakistan and now the ICC is raising security issues about Sri Lanka’s visit,” he said. “Next would be Australia’s tour (in March), then the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy (to be hosted by the country) leading up to the World Cup in 2011.”

It is worth mentioning here that cricket team of England has no problems of security while playing in India but the same country refuses to play in Pakistan. The recent attacks in Mumbai have exposed the so called fool proof security of India. Same is the case with Austrailia which did not paly in Pakistan but was happy to play in India. ICC is looking into security of Sri Lankan players in Pakistan, however, the same was not done for England team in India although the fool proof security was fully exposed.

I think it is not just matter of security it is more than that. ICC should take some effective measures against the cricket playing countries who choose not to play in Pakistan. If ICC moves ICC champions trophy to some other country on bases of security, Pakistan should demand ICC to pay PCB all the financial losses which PCB will suffer and also in protest should not take part in the event.