{"id":9689,"date":"2009-03-09T16:56:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/pakistan-hopeful-of-hosting-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T16:56:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:56:15","slug":"pakistan-hopeful-of-hosting-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/pakistan-hopeful-of-hosting-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan hopeful of hosting World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u2018Government need to guarantee security\u2019, says PCB chief<\/h3>\n<div><strong>PAKISTAN are hopeful they will pass the necessary security checks to co-host the Cricket World Cup on 2011, the chief of cricket in the country has said.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The comments, made by Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Iijaz Butt, come in the wake of terror attacks against the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Six policemen and two civilians were killed in the attack which left eight Sri Lankan cricketers injured.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Pakistan are due to co-host the 2011 world cup with India and Sri Lanka, but their participation looks unlikely if the ICC cannot guarantee teams and players will be safe. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I&#8217;d expect tours to start again as soon as possible. I&#8217;d give it six to nine months,&#8221; Butt told <em>BBC Radio 5 Live<\/em>. &#8220;I definitely think that we will stage part of the World Cup in 2011.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Butt added the Pakistan government would need to guarantee security before any international team stepped foot in the country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I would want us to get security to a level that would be a guarantee from my government that no such incident like this could happen again, or I will not invite anybody,&#8221; he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Once I have this assurance I may then invite people to come here. But this can happen anywhere. I cannot give that guarantee, but my government can. If they cannot then we will not have cricket in Pakistan at all.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Government need to guarantee security\u2019, says PCB chief PAKISTAN are hopeful they will pass the necessary security checks to co-host the Cricket World Cup on 2011, the chief of cricket in the country has said. &#13; The comments, made by Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Iijaz Butt, come in the wake of terror attacks against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}