The Blackcaps have arrived safely in Dubai, after fleeing Pakistan early on Sunday.
New Zealand's cricket tour of Pakistan was abruptly cancelled late Friday night, before their first one-day international, after the NZ Government issued a heightened security alert in the area.
As a result, the Blackcaps squad departed Pakistan on a chartered flight, after being escorted from their team hotel to Islamabad Airport on bulletproof buses.
The New Zealand contingent of 34 players and staff are now undergoing a 24-hour self-isolation period in their Dubai hotel rooms.
Twenty-four will depart Dubai when COVID-19 managed isolation quarantine (MIQ) berths can be secured. The original MIQ bookings made for the Blackcaps' scheduled end of the Pakistan tour will be cancelled.
The remaining 10 members of the Blackcaps group will remain in the UAE and link with the NZ squad for next month's Twenty20 World Cup in the country.
NZ Cricket chief executive David White has also thanked Pakistan's cricket board for its assistance in getting the team to the UAE.
"We appreciate this has been a terribly difficult time for the PCB, and wish to pass on our sincere thanks to chief executive Wasim Khan and his team for their professionalism and care," he says.
White adds that the nature of the threat received menat there was "no way" the Blackcaps could remain in Pakistan.
"What I can say is that we were advised this was a specific and credible threat against the team," he says.
"We had several conversations with NZ Government officials before making the decision and it was after informing the PCB of our position that we understand a telephone discussion was conducted between the respective Prime Ministers.
"Unfortunately, given the advice we'd received, there was no way we could stay in the country."
On Saturday, Security Minister Andrew Little - responsible for the GCSB and NZSIS - told Newshub Nation the threat against the Blackcaps was related to the team taking the field in the first ODI.
"It was a sufficiently serious threat that had to be communicated to team management and that led them to make their decision," Little said.
"It clearly put the Blackcaps in the frame of a security threat. They had to know about that and we have seen the consequence of that."
New Zealand hadn't toured Pakistan since 2003 over security concerns, while no test cricket was played in the country from 2009-19, after an attack on the Sri Lankan team that left six players injured, as well as six police officers and two civilians dead.
