ISLAMABAD. March 11 AP - Pakistan will travel to India for the World Twenty20 after the Indian government gave security assurances on Friday.
Najam Sethi, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, says the team will leave for Kolkata late on Friday night after interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan cleared its departure.
Sethi says the decision was taken, "on the basis of solid security assurances we have received from officials of Indian government."
Sethi met with Khan in Islamabad on Friday and provided letters of security assurances he had received from police officials and the chief minister of Bengal.
The Pakistan Cricket Board received the documents from global governing body the ICC late on Thursday.
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