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Examining Crime and Terrorism Along China’s Belt and Road

The feasible geopolitical motives of the Belt and Highway Initiative (BRI), the professional viability of the projects that comprise it, and regardless of whether Xi’s multitrillion-dollar global improvement campaign is currently being executed sustainably keep on to be hotly debated. In distinction, the topics of crime and terrorism stay mostly unmentioned.

Incidentally, the BRI proponents I have spoken to outright dismiss the premise and likelihood that the BRI is (or could be) inadvertently facilitating illegal exercise. If these folks have been to just casually look at a map of BRI transportation tasks together with a map of black market place networks, then they would see that essential paths of the initiative correspond to and elongate transnational trafficking routes.

Whilst it is pretty self-apparent that the BRI and illicit activity are someway linked, scarcely any exploration has been carried out to quantify or qualify the mother nature and magnitude of these associations. To this finish, a foremost precedence ought to be to examine how crime flows are currently being afflicted or altered by the BRI.

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I forecast — to the relief of BRI supporters, and regret of BRI detractors — the conclusions of these exploration would be blended, relatively than outrightly negative. Diversified nevertheless focused Chinese-led financial investment (specially in vital infrastructure) would possibly be found to accelerate socioeconomic progress by augmenting mobility and connectivity. At the same time, how, and to what extent, criminals and terrorists are (or can be) benefiting from regional integration would also be exposed. I believe this is the primary motive why mentioned investigation has nevertheless to brazenly take area — simply because BRI stakeholders would choose to deny the challenge, rather than really handle it. The end result is that fledgling governments and aloof companies keep on being unaware of evolving BRI security problems, and fail to adapt, accordingly.

If crime and terrorism together the BRI ended up methodologically examined, then proactive steps could be taken to holistically deal with the underlying brings about of these phenomena. Regrettably, the opposite is occurring. Private navy contractors (PMCs) are becoming reactively deployed to simply mask the most obvious symptoms.

In the previous, I explained PMCs as an intriguing, albeit brief-to-medium-expression, surgical remedy to imminent threats to the BRI. I warned, though, that if PMCs had been overused, then their presence could further more alienate now suspicious host place populations.

In a new report, Odil Gafarov of Chatham Property chronicles the rapid “rise of China’s personal armies” in the BRI era. He notes that the Frontier Providers Group (FSG), which was established by Erik Prince (of Blackwater infamy) in 2014, is the 1st of perhaps numerous “hybrid” (Chinese-owned, international-operated) PMCs to be birthed by the BRI. Beforehand, overseas involvement in Chinese PMCs was virtually nonexistent.

In a equivalent report for the United States Institute of Peace, Zi Yang writes that in BRI areas wherever Chinese PMCs are not permitted to function (these types of as Indonesia), or exactly where they only lack experience (these kinds of as Iraq), host country or transnational Western-centered PMCs are retained alternatively.

In my watch, the emergence of a BRI-pushed personal stability marketplace is not necessarily destructive. Right after all, in exigent situation when specific governments are unwilling or not able to furnish standard protections, it will make feeling for private forces to fill the void. Nonetheless, if this nascent market continues to be unregulated (and therefore results in being at any time more rogue), then have confidence in amongst China and its BRI associates will inevitably be eroded.

Gafarov, an Uzbek national, argues that the deployment of PMCs to safeguard BRI pursuits in Central Asia is unwanted. This is because, in his estimation, the protection issues struggling with the BRI are not a facet effect of insufficient safety provisions. Alternatively, he states, tensions between host-country communities and Chinese enterprises are to blame — citing locals’ “deeply-rooted fear that an influx of Chinese personnel could possibly have an impact on demographics.” This predicament is not new, nor is it one of a kind to the Central Asian context.

An formal, albeit less talked-about, goal of the BRI is to reduce domestic unemployment (and the probable for related unrest) by shifting China’s excess production capacity overseas. If you think the State Council’s figures, which indicate that joblessness has fallen from 4.1 % to 3.8 percent in the previous five decades (which equates to 4.25 million Chinese finding perform given that the start of the BRI), then this objective is becoming met. Even so, host region populations have become increasingly resentful that BRI ventures are participating Chinese laborers relatively than their very own communities — so substantially so that their governments (especially in electoral democracies) and Chinese enterprises have been forced to acquire see.

The louder host country issues about the BRI have grown, the additional evident the necessity of company social responsibility (CSR) — which encompasses human resource administration (HRM) issues, this sort of as selecting techniques and worker welfare — has become. Case in point, a review by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Organization Faculty discovered that of 142 Chinese abroad projects that unsuccessful (from a survey of 2,000 ventures, amongst 2005 and 2015), 44 had been right thanks to a “CSR problem.” In locations of conflict — from Marawi to Aleppo to Caracas — in which China has ensconced alone by means of the BRI as an agent of reconstruction (and mediation), the significance and urgency of CSR is even better.

In my 2017 piece (and in the thesis that inspired it), I wrote that if Chinese enterprises show their tangible dedication to host region communities by embedding substantive CSR into their operations, then locals would turn out to be extra inclined to support the BRI.

In get for Chinese CSR to be most helpful, even though, it must be responsive to the demands of the citizenry. In my writings, I have advocated the use of felony risk assessments — which can be multilaterally designed and dispensed — to discover and appraise these needs. The logic is that if Chinese enterprises understood the motives why people today in offered parts and ailments dedicate unlawful acts, then they could employ tailored CSR courses to mindfully assuage the variables that induce offending behaviors, thereby mitigating and blocking stability threats to the BRI.

Evidence-based mostly strategies (like the 1 I am suggesting previously mentioned) have however to be adapted — possibly for the very same purpose why BRI stakeholders stay hesitant to broach the matter of crime and terrorism in the initial position. Yet, Chinese CSR has evolved drastically around the earlier two years.

In January 2018, Chinese media retailers claimed that 84 % of condition-owned enterprises experienced “formulated” CSR programs, even though they also conceded that a lot less than half experienced in fact “set up” programs to administer these plans. In May possibly 2018, the China Communications Construction Enterprise posted the initial Chinese report on CSR along the Belt and Road. Whilst extensive, the report is somewhat self-congratulatory, and depends on gimmicky products (these types of as the “smiling encounter model”) to convey critical info. In September 2018, EY’s China Abroad Investment Community focused an entire periodical to Chinese CSR in the BRI context. Marked increases in host country using the services of by Chinese enterprises are chronicled therein via quite a few laudatory circumstance scientific studies.

Even so, the fact on the floor is significantly far more complex than the aforementioned resources would have you consider. I a short while ago spoke with numerous Pakistanis who are both involved in or impacted by the China-Pakistan Financial Corridor (CPEC) — arguably the most critical, but also most hazardous, artery of the BRI — about no matter whether it is swaying the regional protection problem and remaining carried out in a socially dependable fashion. Introducing even further layers of complication to these dynamics are the existing escalation of tensions in Kashmir, and the probability that Afghanistan may well be a part of CPEC — which would make clear Beijing’s tries to affect the ongoing peace system, and the escalating contingent of Chinese troops in Tajikistan. Shaharyar Ahmad (an Islamabad-centered CPEC specialist) and Adnan Aamir (the editor of Balochistan Voices) ideal encapsulate the two prevailing, albeit dueling, views of quite a few Pakistanis.

“More than 85 % of the workforce functioning on CPEC projects are Pakistani, only 15 percent are Chinese,” Ahmad asserts. “Yes,” he acknowledges, “the Chinese maintain all of the strategic positions. Nonetheless, their presence will be brief-time period, once these projects are up and managing.” When I questioned him about Chinese CSR, Ahmad was very effusive. “CSR has obviously improved Pakistan’s assist for the CPEC, as it has served a very marginalized phase of the population to be a part of the mainstream workforce,” Ahmad advised me, upon delving into a number of comprehensive examples. His conclusion is that the corridor has “tremendously decreased” criminal offense and terrorism by furnishing employment and teaching options to people today, who, if not, “out of desperation,” would be drawn to illicit pursuits.

Aamir agrees with Ahmad that the CPEC has established community employment — despite the fact that he disputes how quite a few. “[Chinese companies] provide workers from China, even the unskilled labor,” he contends, contacting into doubt the official figures from Islamabad and Beijing. In phrases of safety conditions, Aamir thinks “there is no direct evidence linking criminal offense with the CPEC.” However, he stays apprehensive about corruption, specifically kickbacks and land grabs that Chinese entities are allegedly using to circumvent Pakistan’s “mammoth forms.” About terrorism, he believes there has “definitely been an increase” in assaults (specially in Balochistan) since the launch of CPEC. In his view, CPEC worksites and personnel symbolize alluring comfortable targets for the different extremist groups that request to sabotage the Corridor.

Aamir, like Ahmad, is receptive to the thought of Chinese CSR. He also feels there is popular countrywide need for it. “Support [for CPEC] would unquestionably improve among the the underprivileged people who would be immediate beneficiaries of this CSR,” he says. However, Aamir does not think that terrorism traits can be joined to Chinese company behavior. “Terrorism is thanks to nonstate actors who item to the Chinese presence in Pakistan,” he instructed me. “So they will not be pacified if China pours more dollars [into the country] in the kind of CSR.” In Aamir’s see, this entire dialogue is moot — because he insists, to day, Chinese entities have “not shown any willingness” to embed substantive CSR into their operations. “They have manufactured some token claims,” he scoffs, “but that’s negligible.”

As the divergence of view between Ahmad and Aamir illustrates, we are no nearer to being aware of whether the BRI is expanding crime and terrorism now than we ended up back again in 2017 (when I 1st posed the query). The only way we will make any progress to this end is by conducting multilateral exploration and investigation. The fate of the Belt and Highway Initiative (and the international locations collaborating in it) rely upon our collective means to set apart our distinctions, objectively reply this question, and continue appropriately for the bigger fantastic.

Philip Dubow is a Lisbon-centered researcher who just lately introduced about China’s Belt and Road Initiative at the 2019 Dialogue on Structured Crime and Advancement in London.

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PTI Tickets for Pakistan Elections 2018 National and Provincial Assembly : This is the complete list of Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf candidates for general election 2018 in Pakistan, which are going to be held on 25th July this year. This is the first phase of the tickets and the second list will be announced on 13th June 2018. This list includes candidates from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. Imran Khan the chairman of PTI personally announced the list in this video for Pakistanis. Subscribe to my channel https://bit.ly/2GDQ7FJ Abdul Latif NA-1 Chitral MAHMOOD KHAN NA-2 Swat Saleem Rehman NA-3 Murad Saeed NA-4 Sahibzada Sibghat Ullah NA-5 Upper Dir Mehboob shah NA-6 Lower Dir Muhammad Bashir khan NA-7 Junaid Akbar NA-8 Malakand Sher Akbar Khan NA-9 Buner Muhammad Nawaz Khan NA-12 Battagram Zar Gul Khan NA-14 Mansehra-cum Torghar Ali Asghar Khan NA-15 Abbottabad ALI KHAN JADOON NA-16 OMAR AYUB KHAN NA-17 Haripur Asad Qaiser NA-18 Swabi USMAN KHAN TARAKAI NA-19 Mujahid Ali NA-20 Mardan Muhammad Atif NA-21 FAZAL MUHAMMAD KHAN NA-24 Charsadda Pervez Khattak NA-25 Nowshera IMRAN KHATTAK NA-26 Noor Alam Khan NA-27 Peshawar Arbab Amir Ayub NA-28 Shah Farman NA-29 Sher Ali Arbab NA-30 Shaukat Ali NA-31 KHIAL ZAMAN NA-33 Hangu Shahid Ahmad NA-34 Karak Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi NA-35 Bannu Mr. Habibullah Khan NA-37 Tank ALI AMIN KHAN GANDAPUR NA-38 Dera Ismail khan MUHAMMAD YAQOOB SHAIKH NA-39 Gul Dad Khan NA-40 Tribal Area Gul Zafar Khan NA-41 Sajid Khan NA-42 Noor Ul Haq Alqadri NA-43 Syed Iqbal Mian NA-46 Jawad Hussain NA-47 Qaiser Jamal NA-51 Raja Khurram Nawaz NA-52 Islamabad Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi NA-53 Asad Umar NA-54 TAHIR SADIK NA-55 Attock TAHIR SADIK NA-56 Sadaqat Ali Abbasi NA-57 Rawalpindi Choudhary Muhammad Azeem NA-58 Ghulam Sarwar Khan NA-59 Aamer Mehmood Kiani NA-61 Ghulam Sarwar Khan NA-63 Ghulam Abbas NA-64 Chakwal Ch Fawad Hussain NA-67 Jhelum Syed faiz ul hassan NA-70 Gujrat CH MUHAMMAD ILYAS NA-71 Dr.Firdous Ashiq Awan NA-72 Sialkot Muhammad Usman Dar NA-73 Barrister Mansur Sarwar Khan NA-74 Muhammad Aslam NA-76 Mian Muhammad Rasheed NA-77 Narowal ABRAR UL HAQ NA-78 Mohammed Ahmed Chattha NA-79 Gujranwala TARIQ MEHMOOD NA-80 MUHAMMAD SALEH NA-81 Ali NA-82 Rana Nazir Ahmed Khan NA-83 Ch Bilal Ejaz NA-84 Haji Imtiaz Ahmed Choudhary NA-85 Mandi Bahauddin Nazar Muhammad Gondal NA-86 Chaudhry Shoukat Ali Bhatti NA-87 Hafizabad NADEEM AFZAL GONDAL NA-88 Sargodha Usama Ahmed Mela NA-89 CHAUDHRY AAMIR SULTAN CHEEMA NA-91 ZAFAR AHMAD QURESHI NA-92 Umar Aslam Khan NA-93 Khushab GUL ASGHAR KHAN NA-94 Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi NA-95 Mianwali Amjad Ali Khan NA-96 Dr. Afzal Khan Dhandla NA-98 Bhakkar Zulfiqar Ali Shah NA-100 Chiniot ZAFAR ZULQARNAIN SAHI NA-101 Faisalabad Malik Nawab Sher Waseer NA-102 Mohammad Saadullah NA-103 Muhammad Aslam Abro PS-1 Jacobabad SAKHI ABDUL RAZZQ KHAN PS-3 Ameer Buksh Bhutto PS-10 Larkana SHAHARYAR KHAN SHAR PS-18 Ghotki Mir Iftikhar Ahmed Khan Lound PS-21 Ghulam Ali Abbas PS-22 Sukkur GHULAM SHAH MARDAN SHAH URF ZAHID SHAH PS-23 Shahnawaz Jatoi PS-36 Naushahro Feroz Asghar Ali PS-52 Umerkot Dost Muhammad PS-53 UMAID ALI JUNEJO PS-67 Hyderabad Muhammad Altaf Nizamani PS-68 Tando Muhammad Khan SYED ZULFIQAR ALI SHAH PS-69 Zaib naizi PS-78 Thatta Ahsan Ali Jatoi PS-83 Dadu Sadaqat Ali Jatoi PS-84 Ashique Ali Zounr PS-85 Bandah Ali Laghari PS-86 Haleem Adil Sheikh PS-99 Karachi East Khurram Sher Zaman PS-110 Karachi South Imran Ismail PS-111 Muhammad Nawaz Mandokhail PB-2 Zhob Naqeebullah Khan PB-4 Loralai Muhammad Ashraf PB-5 Duki Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind PB-7 Sibi-cum-Lehri Mohammad tariq PB-8 Barkhan Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind PB-16 Jhall Magsi-cum-Kachhi Mir Sardar khan rind PB-17 Kachhi-cum-Mastung Syed Shah Nawaz Kiral PB-19 Pishin Muneer ahmed kakar PB-24 Quetta Muhammad Idrees PB-26 Abdul Bari PB-29 Atta Muhammad PB-31 Fehmeeda Kausar PB-32 Changez Khan PB-33 Nushki Amanullah notezai PB-34 Chagai Mohammad Faisal PB-35 Mustung Abdullah Ali PB-36 Shaheed Sikandarabad MUHAMMAD MALOOK PB-38 Khuzdar ABDUL REHMAN PB-40 Asadullah baloch PB-43 Panjgur Waris ali PB-47 Kech AMIR HUSSAIN PB-49 Lasbela Moula Bakhsh PB-51 Gawadar

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Pakistan Cricket Board against boycotting cricket ties with India : News, Cricket

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has denied to follow at the forefront of Pakistan Hockey Federation which declared this week that it would boycott future foreign occasions in India.

PHF secretary Shahbaz Ahmad has stated that in order to register its protest with the global Hockey Federation (FIH) for falling Pakistan from the Junior World Cup in India this month, it would not take part in any competition in India. ()

“Look, we will not take such a decision because it’s going to be unfair to countless individuals who want to see Indo-Pak matches. Second, whenever we perform against each other it implies enormous financial benefits for the boards and players along with any boycott will only hurt us financially,” said Khan, who had earlier appointed threats of boycotting India in ICC occasions.

Khan said Pakistan looked forward to having discussions with the BCCI officials later this month during the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Colombo.

Khan reported the ICC’s following meeting had already been moved as a result of strained relations between Pakistan and India from Mumbai to Dubai.

“We will not send our teams to India for any competition. How we had been dumped from the Junior World Cup gets ruined our hockey as the tournament was important for us to prepare new players for our senior team,” Ahmad explained.

“It was the duty of the FIH to ensure we got visas. We are currently boycotting all occasions in India. They say we forced resort bookings and didn’t confirm our participation.

The truth is we had been waiting for the visas and second we were asked by the hotel for a deposit. We weren’t in a place to deposit such a large sum without being sure when we’ll get the visas,” Ahmad explained.

India is due to host the hockey Asia Cup along with FIH World Cup in 2018 and 2017.

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Pakistan Cricket Board against boycotting cricket ties with India : News, Cricket

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has denied to follow at the forefront of Pakistan Hockey Federation which declared this week that it would boycott future foreign occasions in India.

PHF secretary Shahbaz Ahmad has stated that in order to register its protest with the global Hockey Federation (FIH) for falling Pakistan from the Junior World Cup in India this month, it would not take part in any competition in India. ()

“Look, we will not take such a decision because it’s going to be unfair to countless individuals who want to see Indo-Pak matches. Second, whenever we perform against each other it implies enormous financial benefits for the boards and players along with any boycott will only hurt us financially,” said Khan, who had earlier appointed threats of boycotting India in ICC occasions.

Khan said Pakistan looked forward to having discussions with the BCCI officials later this month during the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Colombo.

Khan reported the ICC’s following meeting had already been moved as a result of strained relations between Pakistan and India from Mumbai to Dubai.

“We will not send our teams to India for any competition. How we had been dumped from the Junior World Cup gets ruined our hockey as the tournament was important for us to prepare new players for our senior team,” Ahmad explained.

“It was the duty of the FIH to ensure we got visas. We are currently boycotting all occasions in India. They say we forced resort bookings and didn’t confirm our participation.

The truth is we had been waiting for the visas and second we were asked by the hotel for a deposit. We weren’t in a place to deposit such a large sum without being sure when we’ll get the visas,” Ahmad explained.

India is due to host the hockey Asia Cup along with FIH World Cup in 2018 and 2017.

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Pakistan Cricket Board against boycotting cricket ties with India : Cricket, News

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has denied to follow in the footsteps of Pakistan Hockey Federation which declared that it would boycott future foreign events in India.

PHF secretary Shahbaz Ahmad has stated that so as to register its protest with the worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) to dropping Pakistan from the Junior World Cup in India this month, it wouldn’t participate in any competition in India. ().

“Look, we won’t take such a choice because it’s going to be unfair to countless individuals who want to observe Indo-Pak matches. Second, whenever we perform against each other it implies enormous financial benefits for the boards and players and any boycott will only hurt us financially,” said Khan, who’d previously appointed threats of boycotting India in ICC events.

Khan said Pakistan was looking forward to having constructive talks with all the BCCI officials later this month throughout the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Colombo.

Khan explained the next meeting of the ICC had already been moved to Dubai from Mumbai as a result of connections between Pakistan and India.

“In future we won’t send our teams into India for almost any competition. The way we had been dumped from the Junior World Cup gets damaged our hockey since the tournament was important for all of us to prepare fresh players to our senior staff,” Ahmad said.

“It had been the obligation of the FIH to make sure we got visas. We are boycotting all events in India. They say we did not confirm our participation in time and made hotel bookings.

The fact is we had been awaiting the visas and second that the hotel asked us for a non refundable deposit of four thousand Indian rupees that we could not afford given our financial standing. We were not in a place to deposit such a large amount without being sure when we will find the visas,” Ahmad said.

India is due to host the hockey Asia Cup along with FIH World Cup at 2017 and 2018.

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No cricketing ties with Pak, says sports minister Goel

New Delhi: Even as Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) gears up to meet Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in Dubai later in the day to discuss future of India-Pakistan cricket, sports minister Vijay Goel on Monday said under the current political climate, no cricketing ties can be maintained with neighbouring Pakistan.

“The India-Pakistan series is going to be problematic and complicated because of the cross-border terrorism. As long as that persists, no bilateral series or sporting ties can be maintained or possible,” Goel told media on Monday.

“In terms of multi-national sports, we don’t have control on that, and they will be treated differently,” he added when asked about other sports.

Meanwhile, acting BCCI Secretary, Amitabh Chaudhary said a bilateral series with Pakistan is possible if the government gives the go-ahead.

“We are not averse to a bilateral series with Pakistan. But everything depends on whether the government gives the clearance,” Chaudhary told a news channel. “The series will not be possible without approval from the government,” he added.

PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan, Najam Sethi and chief operating officer, Subhan Ahmad will represent Pakistan at the meeting which will be attended by BCCI officials and a member of the CoA.

The PCB chairman had said he would discuss the matter once again with the Indian cricket board officials during the June 4 ICC Champions Trophy match between the two at Edgbaston, according to a media report.

PCB has sent a notice of intent to the BCCI claiming compensation of around USD 69.4 million for India not honouring the MOU signed between the two boards in 2014 to play six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023. Pakistan under the MOU is supposed to host four of the series.

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No cricket with Pakistan until terrorism stops, says India sports minister Vijay Goel : Cricket, News

No cricket with Pakistan until terrorism stops, says India sports minister Vijay Goel

India sports minster Vijay Goel said below the present political climate, no more cricketing ties could be maintained with Pakistan.

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Indian sports Minister Vijay Goel sent out a strong message against the planned bilateral cricket series between India and Pakistan.     This includes as the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Pakistan Cricket Board equipment up to meet in Dubai to discuss the future of  India-Pakistan cricket and as part of an effort to resolve the difficulties between the two boards . Talking to the press, he said under the present political climate, no more cricketing ties can be maintained together with neighbouring Pakistan. “The India-Pakistan string is going to be problematic and complex due to the cyber warfare. As long as that endures, no bilateral series or athletic ties can be maintained or possible.” “With regards to multinational athletics, we have not control on this, and they  will be treated differently,” he added when asked about other sports.Acting BCCI Secretary, Amitabh Chaudhary said that a bilateral series with Pakistan is possible when the government provides the go-ahead. “We are not averse to a bilateral show with Pakistan. But everything depends on if the government provides the clearance,” Chaudhary told a news station. “The show will not be possible without consent from the authorities,” he added.   PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan, Najam Sethi and chief operating officer, Subhan Ahmad will represent Pakistan in the meeting that will be appreciated by BCCI officers and also a member of the CoA.   Shahryar had said he would examine the matter once more together with the Indian cricket board officers during the June 4 ICC Champions Trophy match between both in Edgbaston, Dunya News reported.PCB has delivered a notice of intent into the BCCI claiming compensation of around USD 69.4 million for India not honouring the MOU signed between the two boards in 2014 to play six bilateral string between 2015 and 2023. Pakistan under the MOU is supposed to host four of the series.

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