Pakistan Cricket Board officials said Lorgat would also address a joint press conference with PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt and Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi here on the same day.

It would be the first visit by an ICC official to Pakistan since terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in March, 2009.

It was an attack that left Pakistan’s cricket badly damaged and scared away all international teams.

Sources said Lorgat and other ICC officials were coming to Karachi since Pakistan were the defending champions of the tournament that starts on April 30 in the West Indies.

“Lorgat and his delegation will remain in Karachi for less then a day but his visit is a significant move as far as revival of international cricket in Pakistan is concerned,” one official said.

Lorgat himself has time and again said that resumption of international cricket matches in Pakistan immediately is out of question.

Modi had said on the IPL’s official website that an annual window for the Twenty20 event, which will be held later this year in India between champion teams of seven countries, will be created in the FTP.

“Champions League has already been slotted in as part of the FTP. For an international tournament of this magnitude and this quality, we are working with all the member countries and the ICC,” Modi had said.

But ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat clarified that FTP does not include any fixtures between domestic teams, even those from more than one country.

“The FTP does not include any fixtures between domestic teams, even those from more than one country, and only features ICC events, such as the ICC Cricket World Cup, the ICC Champions Trophy and the ICC World Twenty20, and bilateral fixtures between Full Member international teams,” Lorgat said in a statement.

“I have been in touch with Lalit Modi, a Vice-President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and the Champions League, and we are in full agreement on this matter,” added Lorgat.

“The ICC Board, which includes all Full Members, worked together last October to come up with a date for this year’s Champions League tournament that was mutually convenient for all.

“However, that was only as part of a wider discussion on when we could play the ICC Champions Trophy, which was postponed from Pakistan in 2008 and relocated to South Africa,” he added.

The Champions League Twenty20 featuring domestic teams from Australia, England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies, will be held from October 8-23.