New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden never suggested that New Zealand's abandoned tour of Pakistan be re-scheduled for April-May next year.

Snedden confirmed today that the deadline for a mini-tour of Pakistan in compensation for the abandonment had passed and he called off the tour.

A report in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper yesterday suggested Snedden had offered the April-May dates to Pakistan.

The tour would have been squeezed between New Zealand's home Test series with England and a tour to the West Indies.

"There is no show of us touring in April-May," Snedden said.

"I have never discussed that timing with Pakistan," he said.

The time he did suggest was in August and early September before the ICC KnockOut which New Zealand will be defending between September 15-30, somewhere in Asia, possibly in Pakistan.

"If that is no good we could re-schedule the tour some time in 2003. The alternative to that would be to split the tour up into a One-Day International tour and a separate Test tour.

"I've just put that suggestion to Pakistan today," he said.

One of the agenda items for the ICC meeting in Kuala Lumpur next month concerns some specific details of the future tours programme and what happens in the case of a cancelled tour.

"Both countries have an obligation to re-schedule a tour and we have told Pakistan that is our intention with our tour," he said.

Snedden said that events since his decision to call the New Zealand team back from their Singapore transit stopover en route to Pakistan after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York had not caused him to regret his decision.

"I'm not an international affairs expert. But the pressure is building up in that part of the world. Foreign Affairs here and the independent security people we spoke to said the same thing, Pakistan was a no go area," he said.

Snedden added that there did appear to be a build-up in Pakistan with a significant portion of the population not agreeing with the Pakistan government's position.

He wasn't surprised that Sri Lanka was considering making a tour to Pakistan in New Zealand's place.

It was a fact that people in countries like Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe because of their exposure to dangerous political situations assessed risk differently to New Zealanders who were not so familiar with the dangers, he said.

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