Pakistan, Oct. 19 -- Pakistan, a prime victim of cross-border terrorism, rejects the ICC's selective, biased and premature comment that advances a disputed allegation, as established, that three "Afghan cricketers" died in an "airstrike". The ICC has cited no independent verification to substantiate these claims.

Pakistan strongly rejects the characterization and contests the ICC's claim and call for immediate correction.

"We also note a troubling pattern of amplification without any attempts at evidence gathering. Within hours of the ICC release, its Chair, Jay Shah, publicly echoed the same claim on X, and the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) then posted a statement on the same lines, explicitly invoking the ICC's claim rather than pro...