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India want fresh Pakistan plan

REUTERS, Faisalabad
India has requested a new itinerary for next year's Test series in Pakistan which will be their first full tour of the country since 1989.
"The Indian board wants us to send them a fresh itinerary since the Indian team would be in Australia until February 14," Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief executive Rameez Raja told Reuters on Monday.
"They want a 10-day rest period for their players before coming to Pakistan. We will be finalising the fresh itinerary very soon," he said.
The Indian government decided last week to restore full sporting ties with Pakistan, including bilateral cricket which has been suspended
since 2000 due to tensions over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Since then, they have met at the Asia Cup in Bangladesh and the World Cup in South Africa.
BBC Online adds, a spokesman for the PCB said: "The previous itinerary gives the Indian team a very brief break from the tour to Australia."
The Indian government had long said its policy of disallowing national teams to play Pakistan would continue until cross-border violence ended.
The initial tour itinerary for what will be a historic series proposed three Tests and seven one-day internationals in February and March 2004.
Now it just requires some fine tweaking and according to initial proposals, the tour to Pakistan would have begun just five days later.
No venues have been decided upon yet, although the troubled cities of Karachi and Peshawar, plus Quetta, where a new stadium has been built, are all possibilities.
On their current tour, South Africa refused to play in Karachi, the scene of a number of recent bomb attacks.
They also steered clear of Peshawar, which is close to the Afghanistan border.
Pakistan's three-Test tour of India in 1999 took place despite threats from Hindu fundamentalists.
The proposed tour will be discussed further at the International Cricket Council's executive board meeting in Barbados on October 29.