Lahore, Mar. 5 : Test cricket Umpire Ahsan Raza, who was seriously injured in Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team, is still in critical condition.
Lahore, Mar. 5 : Pakistan investigative agencies are of the view that militants are using Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore to facilitate the release of Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Lakhvi is currently detained at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi and is facing trial for his alleged role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
According to sources, investigation agencies are saying that the attack was planned and carried out by a Lashkar operative.
Pakistani investigators have found evidence suggesting that Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore was actually a hijack bid by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to secure the release of its leaders arrested in the wake of last November's Mumbai carnage.
While investigating agencies have picked up several suspects for questioning, they are yet to trace the 12 attackers who fled after the audacious attack. The agencies have also released sketches of a few suspects.
Rahman Malik, the prime minister's adviser on the interior, said two persons were arrested in Lahore and investigators were tracking phone calls made by the gunmen.
Islamabad - The terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore has left little possibility for an international event of cricket, or any other sports, for the foreseeable future, analysts agreed Wednesday.
"It's a major blow to Pakistan. Who would like to play in the shower of bullets and bombs?" asked retired army general Talat Masood.
"I don't think any international player would step in the country unless and until the country manages to eradicate extremism and terrorism from its soil," he added.
Islamabad - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday, in last ditch efforts to save the life of an abducted colleague, sought assistance from the Pakistani government, a day before a deadline set by the captors expires.
John Solecki, the head of the UNHCR in Pakistan's south-western province of Balochistan, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen from provincial capital Quetta on February
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Islamabad - Pakistan Wednesday assured Sri Lanka of a crackdown on the gunmen who attacked the Lankan cricket team, as investigators grilled at least a dozen suspects to try to determine who was behind the attack that left seven dead.
Seven members of the Sri Lankan squad and their British coach were wounded, none of them seriously, when up to 14 gunmen ambushed their bus Tuesday at a roundabout near Gaddafi Stadium in the heart of Lahore, the capital of the eastern province of Punjab on Tuesday.
Lahore, Mar. 5 : Pakistan investigative agencies are of the view that militants are using Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore to facilitate the release of Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Islamabad - The terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore has left little possibility for an international event of cricket, or any other sports, for the foreseeable future, analysts agreed Wednesday.
Islamabad - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday, in last ditch efforts to save the life of an abducted colleague, sought assistance from the Pakistani government, a day before a deadline set by the captors expires.
Islamabad - Pakistan Wednesday assured Sri Lanka of a crackdown on the gunmen who attacked the Lankan cricket team, as investigators grilled at least a dozen suspects to try to determine who was behind the attack that left seven dead.
