ISLAMABAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Pakistan has determined to ship its cricket group to India to take part on this yr’s 50-over World Cup, the overseas workplace mentioned on Sunday.

The neighbouring international locations, who share fraught relations, have performed one another solely in multi-team occasions at impartial venues during the last decade.

“Pakistan has consistently maintained that sports should not be mixed with politics….Pakistan believes that the state of bilateral relations with India should not stand in the way of fulfilling its international sports-related obligations,” the overseas workplace assertion mentioned of its choice to participate within the World Cup in October and November.

India has dominated out travelling to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, which is scheduled to start on Aug. 31.

Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was among the many overseas ministers who travelled to India’s Goa final month for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) assembly, changing into the primary senior Pakistani chief to go to India in 9 years.

The neighbours have fought three wars and have had various army skirmishes lately. The two nuclear-armed neighbours each management components of the disputed Himalayan area of Kashmir however declare it in full.

Pakistan’s overseas workplace mentioned it had considerations about its cricket group’s safety in the course of the match and would convey them to the International Cricket Council and Indian authorities.

Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield; Editing by Alex Richardson and Ed Osmond

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.