"Playing Pakistan is always special," AIFF President Praful Patel said in a statement.
"It's a positive sign that we will play a bilateral football series against Pakistan. I'm sure all sporting fans are eagerly looking forward to it." Manchester, Coventry and London will host the matches between Aug. 25-Sept. 11, the statement said, but the UK-based organizers said that neither the dates nor the stadiums had been finalized.
The last time India visited Pakistan for a soccer match was in 2005, although the sides last met in an AFC Challenge Cup qualifier in Malaysia this March. India won that contest 3-1.
India snapped bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai attack in which Pakistani gunmen killed 166 people in a three-day shooting spree in India's financial capital.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani traveled to India in March this year to watch a World Cup semifinal featuring the neighbors and the 'cricket diplomacy' has rekindled hopes of a resumption of Tests and one-dayers between the sides.
