Pakistan are set for a return to hosting Test-playing nations after Zimbabwe confirmed a tour will take place in May.
No full Test member of the International Cricket Council has toured Pakistan since 2009, when a terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus left six policemen and two civilians dead, with several players injured.
'Home' games for the 1992 World Cup winners have since been played in the United Arab Emirates, but things have slowly been looking up, with Afghanistan and Kenya undertaking tours to Pakistan over the last year or so.
And Zimbabwe will now be the first full Test nation to set foot in Pakistan, in a series comprising two Twenty20 internationals and three one-day internationals during late May.
In press conference statements published via their official Twitter feed, Zimbabwe cricket managing director Alistair Campbell said: "We are touring Pakistan as a measure of establishing bilateral relations between us and them. They will also come to Zimbabwe in August."
At the same press conference, Zimbabwe Cricket also confirmed a new four-year deal for Dav Whatmore who will face the side he previously coached in Pakistan.
The tour will see all of the matches played in Lahore at the Gaddafi Stadium - which hosted the 1996 World Cup final - beginning with the first T20 on May 22 and ending with the last of three ODIs on May 31.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan said in a statement on their website: "I am grateful to my counterpart in Cricket Zimbabwe, Wilson Manase, for acceding to our request of sending a full side on a tour to Pakistan.
"This would be an auspicious moment for Pakistan cricket and I am positive that it would open doors of international cricket in Pakistan.
"Kenya have already been here for five matches against Pakistan 'A' and I am indeed confident that Zimbabwe's incident-free tour shall be the harbinger of more and more associate and full member nations visiting us in the months and years to come."