British High Commission denies visa to Pak blind cricket team.Byline: ANI Lahore, Aug.13 (ANI): Pakistan blind cricket Blind Cricket is a version of the sport of cricket adapted for blind and partially sighted players. The sport has been played since the 1920s. Within the United Kindgom. team has been refused visas by the British High Commission in Islamabad. According to a press release of the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC PBCC Palm Beach Community College PBCC Packet Binary Convolutional Coding (RF modulation) PBCC Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition PBCC Pitney Bowes Credit Corporation PBCC PowerBASIC Console Compiler PBCC Peninsula Bible Church Cupertino ), the British High Commission denied giving visas to the blind cricketers following which their tour to England was cancelled. "With utter disappointment, the PBCC would like to inform that the visas of Pakistan Blind cricket team for the tour of England have been refused by the British High Commission," the statement said. The PBCC was invited by the England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. blind cricket association, and despite obtaining a No Objection Certificate (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) from the Pakistan government players were not given the required documents to travel to Britain. PBCC said British High Commission's denial has forced the players to think that they are a neglected part of the society. "The world champion blind cricketers are forced to think that being the underprivileged part of society their fundamental rights of even playing cricket are being denied," the statement said. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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