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The Pakistan cricket tour of the West Indies next year is not under threat but the West Indies tour of Pakistan later this year is being threatened by a conflict over dates.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) seem set to call off the tour because the West Indies are not prepared to tour during October, when their premier One-day competition (Red Stripe Bowl) is to be played.

The West Indies are scheduled to tour Pakistan for three Tests and three limited-overs Internationals.

WICB chief executive Stephen Camacho is in Dubai this week at an International Cricket Council (ICC) tour meeting and decisions about the status of the Pakistan tour will be announced soon.

Pakistan Board official Majid Khan is reported to have said from Lahore that when the series was finalised, the West Indies officials were informed that the series will be played from late September to late October.

``But they have now expressed their inability to tour during that period because of their domestic One-day Cup,'' Khan is quoted Khan as saying.

However, Khan stressed that Pakistan's tour of the West Indies, carded for February and March next year, would remain unaffected by the latest developments.

When the West Indies last toured Pakistan 18 months ago, Wasim Akram's men inflicted a crushing 3-0 defeat on Courtney Walsh's Windies, the first such whitewash in almost seven decades.