"I love watching sports and I also love cricket, but I would not go anywhere where I am not invited. If I am invited to watch cricket, I would consider," a presidential spokesman quoted Musharraf as telling Al-Arabiya television.

The opening Test begins at Mohali on March 8.

The tour comes amid a 14 month-old thaw in relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who last month agreed to start a bus service between their zones of the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir.

Cricket ties between the South Asian giants, disrupted since 2000 due to political tensions, were revived in March last year when India toured Pakistan for their first Test series since 1989.

Musharraf turned up for an hour to watch a one-dayer played in the northern garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.

Pakistan's late military dictator general Ziaul Haq visited the Indian city of Jaipur in 1987 to watch a cricket match between the two countries when relations were also strained.