Patna/Chennai, Mar 5 : Young cricketers here staged demonstration against the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.

They in white uniforms raised slogans against the Pakistan Government and burnt an effigy.

"We are agitated over the attack on Lankan cricketers in Pakistan. We believe that cricket or in fact any game should be kept away from fear. But it is not possible in Pakistan. Thus, we wish that all sports activity should stop and all teams should refuse to travel to Pakistan," said Aditya Ranjan.

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.

New Delhi, Mar 4 : Ex-BCCI chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday supported the Home Ministry''s proposal to reschedule the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament, in view of security concerns following the Tuesday''s attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore.

Talking to the reporters here today, Pawar said , "The security for the Indian Premier League is not a cause for worry but the government''s view on the matter should be taken into account by the organisers of the Twenty20 event."

Islamabad - The Pakistani government has come under heavy criticism for slack security arrangements for the Sri Lankan cricket team that narrowly escaped death in a terrorist attack on Tuesday in the eastern city of Lahore.

Former players, opposition politicians, and even a federal minister termed the terrorist attack a serious security lapse, media reports said.

London, Mar. 4 : Britain has asked Pakistan to dismantle the terror infrastructure inside its territory, and act sincerely against the terrorist groups operating from its soil.

Expressing concern over the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that a vast majority of Al-Qaeda operatives have taken refuge inside Pakistan.

"We know that the vast majority of Al-Qaeda fighters are now in Pakistan not in Afghanistan," Brown said.

Brown said that Islamabad must act sincerely against the outlawed organizations.

Geneva - The humanitarian situation in north-eastern Sri Lanka has become "extremely grim," a senior United Nations official in the Asian country said Wednesday.

Gordon Wiess, the spokesman for the UN's operations in Sri Lanka warned that some 70,000 to 200,000 were trapped in a tiny enclave between a lagoon and the sea front, desperate for food, shelter and drinking water.

He said it was "unacceptable" that civilians were cut off from aid.