Aparently this is not true.

Pakistan toured SA in 1998, and a couple of our players, namely Mohammad Akram and Saqlain Mustaq were mugged near their hotel. Akram had to go for X-ray and treatment of lacerations on his hand, and that consequentially put his place in the first test against South Africa in jeopardy. Saqi was shaken but thankfully remained uninjured. In interviews later Wasim Akram said the team was totally shaken by those incidents and wanted to come back home imediately. The PCB however only wanted the 1st test to be delayed. The United Cricket Board of SA remarkably (somehow) managed to get out of jail without anything happening. Now I'm not saying we should have come back , I thought what did was right, in principle, but do you think the tour would have progressed had any other team then Pakistan been in this scenario. I don't for once. Aus would have taken the flight back home next day, ditto for England and NZ, they might not have waited for even a few hours. Australia just played a couple of tests in England right when the UK was perhaps going through its most vulnerable period security wise and yet we still have very few people being concerned about Australia's security there. Next year we have to go to England, imagine the PCB telling the ECB they won't play in London because of terror threats, can you see in any likelihood ECB allowing the PCB to tour England without asking the team to play in England, NO. Not even the slightest chance of that. Fact is, the PCB are soft, and allow other teams to dictate terms to them. I don't understand why some people are always so hell bent in trying to project themselves as being more vulnerable. There are over 10 million people in Karachi and an over 100 million people in Pakistan who confront these and many other threats daily yet they still go on about their lives as normaly as they can. I don't see why cricketers should be treated like precious comodities. They're humans just like us. On these grounds I don't see why any team any where in the world should have any reservations about playing anywhere.