The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is still looking to pursue banning Pakistan from the international cricket despite a recent rejection from the International Cricket Council (ICC), the Indian cricket board’s, Committee of Administrators (CoA) chairman Vinod Rai said on Thursday.

According to Vinod Rai, the ICC should ban the countries that give shelter to terrorism, though he remained reserved on whether India will boycott Pakistan at the ICC World Cup 2019, which starts on May 30 in the UK. Talking about the same, Rai said, “Let the time come. It is still four months away. We have expressed our concerns (over security) and they (ICC) said yes, ‘security will be tightened’ and everything else.”

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Rai insisted that the ICC has not shot down BCCI’s request of banning Pakistan from international cricket. He explained, “The letter was placed. It clearly says Pakistan. It is a process which goes slow. Have we been able to boycott any of the countries in the Security Council? The process goes on slowly. We have started a process.”

At its board meeting in Dubai last week, the ICC dismissed the BCCI’s request to sever ties with countries from where terrorism emanates through the Indian Board did not make a specific reference to Pakistan. However, India and Pakistan are scheduled to play in the World Cup on June 16 and Rai said the due process will be followed before the final decision is taken on boycotting the high-octane clash in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack.

In the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, in which more than 40 CRPF personnel were killed, the BCCI, in a letter to the ICC, urged the world body and its member nations to sever ties with countries which harbor terror.

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The India-Pakistan matter will be among the issues the COA will discuss with ICC chairman Shashank Manohar in Mumbai later this month.