"Test matches are scheduled for Mohali, Chennai and Bangalore," said a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) source.

"The one-day matches are scheduled for Kochin, Jamshedpur, Visakhapatnam, Kanpur and Faridabad."

The BCCI is set to announce a final itinerary for the tour, Pakistan's first since 1999, on Thursday.

The two sides will play three Tests beginning on March 4, 12 and 20.

They will be followed by five one-dayers, the first on March 28, and the tour will end on April 9.

Mumbai's exclusion is linked to security reasons as Hindu fundamentalist party Shiv Sena has voiced its opposition Pakistan playing there.

But Kolkata's omission can only be linked to Pakistan's three one-day victories there in 1987, 1989 and last year.

However, sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board said they would consider playing in Mumbai because they didn't want to deprive the city of a high profile match.

Mumbai did not host any matches on Pakistan's last tour in 1999, after death threats from Shiv Sena, whose activists also dug up the pitch.