Pakistan postpones Bangladesh tour for at least one year

Pakistan's cricket chief said on Thursday that a scheduled visit to Bangladesh this summer has been postponed for at least a year after the Bangladeshis refused to reciprocate the tour because of security fears.

Pakistan was due to play two Tests, three one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match in Bangladesh in July and August.

But the militancy-wracked country has been forced to host most of its matches overseas after an attack on the Sri Lankan team in 2009, barring a limited over series against Zimbabwe in 2015.

Security has improved over the past two years and some foreign players have tentatively endorsed returning.

But cricket chief Shaharyar Khan said Bangladesh had turned down the invitation.

He told AFP he had spoken to Bangladesh cricket board representatives on the sidelines of an International Cricket Council meeting in Dubai, and "decided to postpone the series for one or two years"."But we will definitely play them," Khan added.