Group-owned IPL franchise Pune Warriors India (PWI) announced its withdrawal from IPL. PWI had failed to pay the full franchise fee for the year 2013. The BCCI then encashed its bank guarantee, causing the Sahara Group to pull out of the league. Dispute with other cricket boards Pakistan Cricket Board Due to India's conflict with Pakistan and 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in the same year which killed many citizens, the IPL has, as a matter of policy, effectively barred the involvement of Pakistani cricketers in the league, with the exception of the inaugural season in 2008. According to Jonathan Liew of The Guardian, "this is a decision driven largely by ideology, nationalism and geopolitics: the dressing room as proxy battlefield, the auction as theatre of war." Many times It is revealed that Pakistani government, Inter-Services Intelligence and Pakistan army train, support and harbouring islamic terrorist and these same terrorists attacks in Jammu And Kashmir (UT) as well as India and kill innocent people. It is act of war against Republic of India. Due to it Government of India and BCCI banned Pakistani players to play in IPL. In 2012, BCCI discouraged its IPL franchise owners to select Pakistani players. In 2022, many IPL team owners purchased teams in South Africa's SA20 cricket league but there also the owners expressed that, they will not buy any Pakistani players, by fearing it could anger Indian fans. Despite this ban, Wasim Akram has on previous occasions lent coaching services to the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise. He has expressed his support for the idea of Pakistani cricketers being part of the IPL and Indian cricketers also playing in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), stating "sports shouldn't be a victim of politics." Although Pakistan won the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, Pakistani players went unsold in the 2010 IPL auction, an incident that sparked a diplomatic row between the BCCI and PCB. KKR owner Shah Rukh Khan caused a furore in India when he suggested that Pakistani players should have been included in that season, to which the Shiv Sena responded by threatening to boycott him if he did not tender an apology. In 2019, amid worsening relations, the government of Pakistan imposed a ban on the IPL and directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority to "ensure that no IPL match is aired in Pakistan." There have been some Pakistani-born or Pakistani-origin cricketers of foreign