A Pakistan Cricket Board official says Afghanistan has expressed interest in playing in a Twenty20 event in Pakistan later this year.
Sultan Rana, the PCB's director of domestic cricket, told The Associated Press on Monday that the board has received the request and says the likely 14th team for the competition in September and October "will be Afghanistan."
The event hosted in Rawalpindi and Islamabad will feature two teams each from Lahore and Karachi, plus nine Pakistani regional sides.
Pakistan has not hosted any of the world's leading teams since gunmen attacked Sri Lanka's team bus in 2009.
Afghanistan would be making its second trip to the country this year, having lost a one-day series 3-0 to a second-string Pakistan side in May.
