The PCB said it will take up the matter with the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the International Cricket Council at a scheduled meeting in Dubai later this month.
Indian
broadcaster IMG
Reliance has withdrawn from its contract to produce coverage of
the Pakistan Twenty20 league following the deadly Kashmir
attack last week, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on
Sunday.
The
company was televising the Pakistan
Super League, which is being played in the United Arab Emirates
because of security concerns, and it was also due to televise the
last knockout matches to be held in Karachi and Lahore next month.
Forty-one
Indian soldiers were killed in the suicide bombing which was claimed
by a Pakistan-based militant group in the Himalayan region which was
the deadliest attack in a 30-year-old armed conflict.
The
PCB said an announcement of the new live broadcasters of the
tournament would be made on Monday.
"The
PCB always had a contingency plan in place, and we are confident we
will be in a position to announce the new partner," PCB's
managing director Wasim Khan said in a statement
"The
PCB has also noted the recent turn of events and expresses its
extreme disappointment as we have always believed and emphasised that
sports and politics should be kept separate," he added.
The
PCB said it will take up the matter with the Board of Control for
Cricket in India and the International Cricket Council at a scheduled
meeting in Dubai later this month.
India
has stalled all bilateral cricketing ties with Pakistan since attacks
on Mumbai in 2008 which was blamed on militants based across the
border.
But
the nations have continued to face each other at international
tournaments and are scheduled to play in the World Cup in England on
June 15 this year.
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