The chief executive of the PCB, Wasim Khan, told VOA the New Zealand team would head home Saturday on a chartered plane. An English cricket team was scheduled to visit Pakistan in October, but Interior Minister Ahmed said that tour also was now in doubt. "Ministry of Interior has informed me that the English team is also thinking along the same lines. On our part, we are ready to welcome them. There is no security threat in our country to either New Zealand or England," he said. International cricket teams stopped visiting Pakistan after an attack on a Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009 in Lahore that wounded seven members of the team. Pakistan went through several years of violence starting approximately in 2007 as extremist groups blaming Pakistan for siding with the United States in its war on terror started attacking both its security forces and civilians. Pakistani officials claim up to 80,000 of their citizens died in these attacks, and the country suffered up to $150 billion worth of damage to its economy. In 2016, Pakistani cricket authorities formed the Pakistan Super League, six cricket teams representing six cities. The teams included international players in an effort to revive international cricket in Pakistan. The first two seasons of the league were played outside Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates. The first international team to return to Pakistan was Zimbabwe in 2015.
Umuyobozi mukuru wa PCB, Wasim Khan, yabwiye VOA ko ikipe ya Nouvelle-Zélande izerekeza izasubira iwabo ku wa Gatandatu ikodesheje indege.  Biteganijwe ko ikipe y’umukino wa Cricket mu Bwongereza izasura Pakisitani mu Kwakira, ariko Minisitiri w’imbere mu gihugu Ahmed yavuze ko uruzinduko narwo ruteye amakenga. Ati: "Minisiteri y'Ubutegetsi bw'igihugu yamenyesheje ko ikipe y'Ubwongereza nayo ishaka kuza. Twebwe twiteguye kubakira. Nta kibazo cy'umutekano muke  kiri mu gihugu cyacu haba muri Nouvelle-Zélande cyangwa mu Bwongereza". Amakipe mpuzamahanga ya Cricket yahagaritse gusura Pakisitani nyuma y’igitero cyagabwe ku ikipe ya Cricket ya Sri Lankan mu 2009 i Lahore hagakomereka abantu barindwi bagize iyi kipe. Pakisitani yakorewe urugomo guhera muntangiro zo mu 2007 ubwo imitwe y’intagondwa yashinjaga Pakisitani kuba yarashyigikiye Amerika mu ntambara yo kurwanya iterabwoba yatangiye kwibasira abashinzwe umutekano ndetse n’abasivili. Abayobozi ba Pakisitani bavuga ko abaturage babo bagera ku 80.000 bapfiriye muri ibyo bitero, kandi igihugu cyahuye ningaruka mbi kubukungu bugabanuka kugera kuri miliyari 150 z'amadolari. Muri 2016, abategetsi ba Cricket muri Pakisitani bashinze Pakistan Super League, amakipe atandatu ya Cricket ahagarariye imigi itandatu. Amakipe yarimo abakinnyi mpuzamahanga mu rwego rwo kubyutsa umupira w'amaguru mpuzamahanga muri Pakisitani. ibyiciro bibiri byambere bya shampiyona byakiniwe hanze ya Pakisitani muri United Arab Emirates. Ikipe mpuzamahanga ya mbere yaje gukinira muri Pakisitani ni Zimbabwe muri 2015.