"I met the BCCI President, Anurag Thakur on the sidelines of the ICC meeting in Capetown and asked him whether India wanted to play with Pakistan or not," PCB's former chairman and head of executive committee, Sethi, told the media in Lahore.
"He didn't give a straight answer and in fact he has floated some ideas which it would not be fair to discuss at this forum now," Sethi said.
"I told the ICC members that we had been suffering huge losses since the last nine years because India was just not ready to play with as as per the bilateral calender," he added.
"I told them that because India was not playing with us we had suffered huge losses and it had hit our development plans for the sport in Pakistan," Sethi stated.
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"But we said such a committee would serve no purpose and it was the BCCI which must make a clear policy statement on playing with us in either bilateral series or ICC events. Thakur didn't respond at the ICC meeting," he said.
The PCB official stated that Pakistan had made it clear to the ICC that if India didn't want to play them in ICC events including next year's Champions Trophy it should be clear about it.
Sethi said that the ICC was willing to give financial compensation to Pakistan for India refusing to play bilateral series.
"Giles Clarke will be giving a report to the ICC on how and how much the ICC can give to us but we have told them it should not be a loan or grant," he said.
Sethi said that Pakistan was already suffering as a cricket nation because of Test teams not willing to tour the country because of security concerns.
A reliable source in the board said that at the ICC meeting the technical committee of the women's cricket league had been asked to reach a decision on what steps to take on India's refusal to play Pakistan in the bilateral series last October in UAE.
"The series in UAE was important since it will decide which four top teams qualify for the next women's World Cup. The technical committee will now decide what to do whether to penalize India and award points to Pakistan," he said.
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