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Minister plays down SA security fears

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat Wednesday brushed aside security fears among South African cricketers, assuring that the squad will have a safe tour of Pakistan.
"The South African team will be safe in Pakistan because there are no security fears, they must tour our country without any fears," said Hayat.
"The Pakistan Cricket Board asked us to make arrangements for top-level security and I have directed the federal agencies and provincial administrations to leave no stone unturned and give the best security to South Africa," the minister said.
A three-member South African delegation left Pakistan on Tuesday after security checks in the southern port city Karachi and northwestern Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan, following a demand by the United Cricket Board of South Africa
(UCBSA) that Pakistan relocate matches in the two cities.
The delegation comprising UCBSA's commercial director, Ian Smith, and security director Bob Nicholas, and a senior South African police official Ben van Deventer, was briefed by Pakistani police and paramilitary officials about the security arrangements.
Smith said he was satisfied with the arrangements but a final decision would be announced by the South African government and the UCBSAon Friday.
"Our job was to inspect security arrangements for the South African team starting from the airport to hotels and the grounds. And I can say that we are satisfied with them," Smith, spokesman of the three-member delegation told reporters here.
"We will submit a detailed report on the security here to the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) and to the government and it is up to them to take a final decision," said Smith.
"The Pakistan cricket board (PCB), police and rangers have put up a great display of arrangements
for us and we hope the same will be done for the team as well."
Pakistan has suffered a cricket drought in the past 18 months, with foreign teams refusing to tour the country following two suicide bomb blasts in Karachi during Test series in Mayand June last year.
Pakistan was forced to play two of its home series matches against the West Indies and Australia at neutral venues last year as both teams refused to tour the country.
UCBSA had demanded that the PCB relocate matches scheduled for the violence-prone southern port city of Karachi and the northwestern border city of Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan, over security concerns.
"We know there are no specific threats to the South African cricket team in Pakistan but we are not in a position to clear the tour," Smith said.
Police and para-military officials briefed the delegation on security and also showed them all the drills reserved for the team. The delegation is due to leave laterTuesday.