Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt said on Sunday his country could host an international team in the next six to nine months and will still co-host the 2011 World Cup.
Butt was speaking by telephone on BBC's Five Live Sportsweek programme about the militant attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore on Tuesday in which seven people were killed and six members of the Sri Lankan team injured.
"I would expect teams will tour here again as soon as possible. I would give it six to nine months to get things organised," he said.
"I would want us to get security to a level that would be a guarantee from my government that no such incident like this could happen again, or I will not invite anybody.
"Once I have this assurance I may then invite people to come here. But this can happen anywhere. I cannot give that guarantee, but my government can. If they cannot then we will not have cricket in Pakistan at all. I definitely think that we will stage part of the World Cup in 2011."
Butt said he disagreed with match referee Chris Broad who said there had not been enough security to protect players and officials. Former England batsman Broad was travelling in the officials' bus behind the Sri Lanka team.
"I totally disagree with Chris Broad, he is overdoing it. And it is wrong if they (the International Cricket Council) are siding with one man's opinion. I have told them that this opinion is totally wrong," Butt said.
Its a dream the PCB is having regarding international teams returning in such a short period. Even if the players are air lifthed from their hotels to the stadium international players would refuse to play in pakistan in the near furture is jus a dream. Even kids in the streets of the country where quick to react about the question asked by a reporter regarding Pakistan being a venue for international cricket tha answer was "NO"
Its better for the board to stop day dreaming and start concentrating on how to make the country free of antisocial elements.
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