Lahore, Mar 24 : Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has disclosed that traces of foreign powers' involvement were found in the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team, and that there was much progress in the probe being conducted in this regard.

According to him, "saying something else on this issue will be premature. Let the probe be completed."

Karachi, Mar. 23 : Former Pakistan cricket captain Zaheer Abbas has said that the shifting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) from India may further dent hopes of holding the 2011 World Cup in the region whose fate already hangs in uncertainty, especially after the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore.

Abbas termed the decision to shift the IPL from India to some other country as a `bad omen' for Asian cricket.

Colombo, Mar. 23: Briefing documents prepared by the United Nations have warned of a major humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, where over 150,000 people are being shelled at daily and are running short of water and medicine.

The Sri Lankan Government has declared the area in question as a "No Fire Zone", and the UN claims that tens of thousands of people are caught between the last 1,500 fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the advancing troops of the Sri Lankan army.

Colombo – The navy thwarted an attempt by rebels to carry out a mid-sea suicide attack off north-eastern Sri Lanka, killing all five insurgents, a military spokesman said Monday.

He said the attackers posing as civilians fleeing the rebel-controlled areas of Mullaitivu, 390 kilometres north-east of the capital, were in a dinghy coming along with three other boats carrying civilians when they were detected.

In a shocking development, a 12 year old girl student died and 27 others were hospitalized after being administered a shot of Rubella vaccine in Sri Lanka's Matara district.

The girl, Piyasala Hansani, died at his school St. Thomas' Girls School, about 160 km south of the capital Colombo.

It can be recalled that nearly 300 students of the school were given vaccine after which some students had fallen ill and were admitted to the hospital.