A Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official said on Sunday that their A team’s Pakistan tour is still on as per schedule but added that they cannot guarantee anything as it is dependent on a lot of permutations and combinations.

The Bangladesh government announced a nationwide curfew for an indefinite period on Sunday amid the worsening situation following the student movement that saw protesters having clashes with police and ruling party supporters in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country after the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement announced an all-out non-cooperation programme starting on Sunday.

“The A team’s tour is on till now but at the same time you cannot say anything with certainty with the present political situation but we are hopeful that they will be able to fly on scheduled date,” the official told the Daily Sun on Sunday.

Bangladesh A team, which included former Test skippers Mushfiqur Rahim and Mominul Haque for one of the four-day matches against Pakistan Shaheens in preparation for the two-match Test series against their senior men's side, is scheduled to depart on 6 August.

The team is scheduled to play two four-day games and three one-day matches against Pakistan Shaheens from 10-27 August in Islamabad.

Seven Test cricketers from the last series against Sri Lanka have been picked for the four-day match, among those being Shahadat Hossain, Zakir Hasan, Mahmudul Hasan, Nayeem Hasan and Hasan Mahmud.

Young middle-order batsman Shahadat Hossain, who played the last four Tests at home against New Zealand and Sri Lanka, is unlikely to make the cut in the Test squad and as a result would remain with the Bangladesh A team to play the second four-day game against Pakistan Shaheens while the remaining six cricketers will return home to make them available for Test series against Pakistan.