Information Minister Atta Tarar has categorically rejected the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) 'selective, biased, and premature' statement regarding the deaths of three Afghan cricketers, which claimed they were killed in an 'airstrike in Paktika'.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board, in a statement, had said that three local cricketers were killed in a military strike in Paktika province and announced its withdrawal from next month’s tri-nation series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Later, in a statement, the ICC condemned the attack, saying it stands in solidarity with the ACB and shares in their grief. "The ICC is deeply saddened and appalled by the tragic deaths of three young and promising Afghan cricketers, Kabeer Agha, Sibghatullah, and Haroon, who lost their lives in a recent airst

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