Pakistan is planning to invite arch-rivals India for a nine-nation hockey tournament to be held in Lahore in December.
"We had been asked by the Ministry what would be the appropriate time for a resumption of Pakistan-India hockey series and we told them that the first opportunity would be to invite them over to Lahore for the tournament," Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary Brig Musarratullah Khan was quoted as saying in the local daily
Dawn.
He, however, said the matter of inviting India is at a very preliminary stage but if India does participate, the tournament
will have an added charm.
Though there has been no bilateral exchanges between the two sub-continent rivals for some years now, they have continued to play in multi-nation events on neutral soil, their latest clash resulting in a 4-4 draw in a three-nation tournament in Sydney yesterday.
The recent confidence-building measures taken by prime ministers of both Pakistan