Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Mohsin Naqvi met with Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board Richard Thompson in London. During the meeting, Richard Thompson expressed his best wishes to Chairman Mohsin Naqvi and the PCB for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy tournament. He said England's recent visit to Pakistan was a wonderful experience.

According to reports, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah had strongly objected to the move to tour the trophy of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir cities and condemned it.

The United States has weighed in on India's decision to not play the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan, emphasizing the importance of sports diplomacy

Pakistan have decided against taking the Champions Trophy on tour across PoK regions, but said that the plan was approved by the ICC and they did not decide anything unilaterally, a media report claimed.

“BCCI secretary Shah has objected to the PCB’s idea to hold a Champions Trophy tour in PoK. The BCCI has no problem if the tour is conducted in any other city of Pakistan or even in a stadium outside PoK or in a mall. But they cannot hold it in PoK,” a BCCI official was quoted as saying by IE.

Pakistan are the defending champions, having won the previous edition of the ICC Champions Trophy in England and Wales in 2017. The change in itinerary has come after Pakistan wanted to take the trophy for a tour to PoK.

A fresh twist in the 2025 Champions Trophy has thrown the ICC's trophy tour into confusion, a day before it was supposed to begin in Pakistan, after the BCCI objected to the PCB's plan of taking the tour to Muzaffarabad,

ICC has decided to cancel the planned tour of Champions Trophy 2025 in Skardu, Murree, and Muzaffarabad - areas that fall within Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The ICC on Friday put on hold the Champions Trophy tour of disputed Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) following BCCI's strong objection to the PCB's move. While sources in the PCB said late Friday evening that the Pakistan Board would remove one of the four disputed cities from the trophy tour,

The ongoing controversy surrounding the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has intensified following objections raised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) regarding the planned tour of the trophy to the controversially-claimed region called ‘Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)’.