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60 Lahore suspects held for attack on Lankan team

60 Lahore suspects held for attack on Lankan teamLahore, Mar. 4 : As many as sixty suspects have been rounded up for questioning for their alleged role in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team on Tuesday, a Pakistani TV channel has reported.

Pakistani Police has detained many suspects here. Bomb disposable squad recovered dozens hand grenades, explosive materials, five suicide jackets, Kalashnikovs, and many bullets from eleven separate places in the city.

Police teams have also seized three cars and a rickshaw believed to have been used by the terrorists during the ambush, Geo TV reported.

Lahore attack planned inside Pakistan: Editorial

Lahore attack planned inside Pakistan: EditorialLahore, Mar. 4: Even before the dust of the Lahore terror attack has settled, the blame game has begun. Pakistan is blaming a ‘foreign hand’ for the ghastly act.

Pakistan’s political by lanes have also wasted no time in laying the blame on organizations outside its territory as a PPP politician, within minutes of the attack, said “This is clearly the work of a foreign hand.”

TOURS TO PAK UNTENABLE

Lahore attack has imprint of 26/11 carnage

Lahore attack has imprint of 26/11 carnage

Al Qaeda plus affiliates, not LTTE behind Lahore attack

London/Lahore, Mar. 4 : Few doubt that al-Qaeda or its affiliates in Pakistan''s tribal areas were the instigators of Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

Suggestions that the Tamil Tigers were avenging their defeat in Sri Lanka are being seen as improbable, according to an analysis by The Times.

In hitting a visiting cricket team, they could not have chosen a target more likely to outrage a cricket-mad nation, humiliate its hapless Government and send a defiant message not only to India, Sri Lanka and other neighbors but also to the entire cricket world.

Lankan players injured in Pak will be able to play in two weeks

Lankan players injured in Pak will be able to play in two weeksLahore, Mar 4: Sri Lankan cricketers, who received minor injuries in a terrorist attack at the Liberty Chowk here, were declared fit to play in a couple of weeks after treatment by highly-trained surgeons.

“All Sri Lankan cricketers escaped serious injuries that may have jeopardised their playing careers and they will be able to represent their country again in a couple of weeks’ time,” said Dr. Faisal Masood, the principal of the Services Hospital, and Prof Dr Arshad Cheema, the professor of surgery from the Mayo Hospital.

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