Pakistan arrests suspect in Sri Lankan cricket team attack

September 14th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik will lead a high-level investigation team to Sri Lanka at the end of September to look into links that the Liberty attackers may have had with Tamil Tigers. A private TV channel reported on Sunday that the team would meet the Sri Lankan leadership and top intelligence officials to share information regarding the attacks.

June 17th, 2009 First suspect in Sri Lanka cricket attack arrestedLAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team, and allege the assailants planned to take the athletes hostage to demand the release of jailed comrades, a senior official said Wednesday. Pervez Rathore, police chief in the city of Lahore where the March 3 attack occurred, said the arrested suspect, Mohammad Zubair, was a member of the Punjabi Taliban, an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group that is accused of having al-Qaida ties.

June 17th, 2009 Suspect in Sri Lanka cricket attack arrestedISLAMABAD — Pakistani police say they have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore in March. Lahore police Chief Pervez Rathore said Wednesday the suspect was a member of a banned militant organization, but refused to name the group.

May 13th, 2009 LAHORE - Three suspects were arrested in connection with their alleged involvement in an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore that left six policemen dead and many players injured. Sources told Geo TV that the accused are members of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and hail from Southern Punjab.

March 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - An interim investigation report over the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has indicated that there was a complete security lapse which led to the Lankan players being sprayed with bullets. The report also points out towards a possible involvement of a foreign hand in the attack, however, it does not have anything substantial which could unveil the perpetrators.

March 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Mehar Khalil, the driver of the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket players which was attacked, has been given a 10 day family visa for Sri Lanka. Following his heroic effort to save the Sri Lankan cricket team from the terror attack, Lankan players showered praise on Khalil and invited him to visit their country.

March 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - In a bid to come clean on the Lahore terror attack, Pakistan has reiterated the role of a foreign hand in it, and accused India of using Afghanistan's soil against Pakistan. Addressing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior Affairs, Advisor on Interior matters, Rehman Malik, said investigations have not found any evidence of the Lashkar-e-Toiba's involvement.

March 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has zeroed in on the alleged mastermind of last week's terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, a media report said Monday. 'The Lahore police have named the mastermind as Mohammad Aqeel.

March 5th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the politico-religious body of the Sikhs, Wednesday said it had asked the union government and the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to ensure security for pilgrims visiting Sikh shrines in the neighbouring country. The SGPC request comes a day after the attack by terrorists on the Sri Lankan cricket team in a busy area of Lahore city, 50 km from here.

March 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Strongly condemning the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, former president Pervez Musharraf Thursday termed it a conspiracy against Pakistan. 'Whatever happened was very bad.

March 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The 'enemies of Pakistan' who want to 'destabilise' the country were behind Tuesday's Lahore terror strike that claimed the lives of eight people and left six Sri Lankan cricketers injured, Interior Minister Rehman Malik says. 'Enemies of Pakistan who want to destabilise this country were responsible for the attack,' Malik told reporters.

March 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday strongly condemned the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and ordered an immediate enquiry. Zardari asked the authorities concerned to immediately investigate the incident so that the perpetrators are identified and their motives exposed.

March 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, in which six escorting security personnel were killed and seven members of the squad injured, was the handiwork of the enemies of Pakistan-Sri Lanka friendship, Pakistan said Tuesday. 'Full investigation is being carried out into the attack and the perpetrators of this heinous crime would be given exemplary punishment,' Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit said in a statement.

March 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - Former International Cricket Council (ICC) president Jagmohan Dalmiya Tuesday night condemned the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan players in Pakistan and hoped the authorities in the sub-continent would take measures so that the sport was not affected. 'This is an act of cowardice of the highest degree.

March 4th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan national cricket team returned to the country Wednesday morning after several cricketers were injured in a shootout in the Pakistani city of Lahore Tuesday, airport officials said. The cricket team arrived at the airport at about 3.50 a.m.