A senior PCB official has said that there is still hope for the India-Pakistan bilateral cricket series to be held in December in the UAE.
Najam Sethi, who heads the PCB's executive committee, also downplayed reports that the BCCI had not followed the norms of hospitality while inviting the Pakistan cricket delegation to Mumbai.
"My impression is that the Indian board also wants to have the series. If they didn't want that they would not have invited us to Mumbai for talks in the first place," Sethi said on Geo Super channel.
When reminded what PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan had said about the hospitality, or the lack of it, on his India visit at a press conference back home, Sethi said he could understand former diplomat's viewpoint as he was disappointed that Shashank Manohar didn't call him directly.
Asked if the PCB could consider pulling out of the World T20 due to security threats Sethi said it was premature to comment on this subject.
But the PCB official was critical about the way the PCB delegation was criticised and tongue lashed for going to India.
"What have we done wrong. The PCB has all along made its position clear it wants to play cricket with India to help improve relations in some small way because it doesn't believe in mixing sports and politics."
He noted this was also the policy of the Pakistan government.
"I don't think we lost anything by going to India for talks on invitation of the Indian board. If anything we have succeeded in making the point where Pakistan stands on mixing sports and politics. And I can tell you our govt doesn't tell us what to do but it believes in having cricket ties."