Sri Lanka national cricket team

The minister said the threat had evolved with the recent terrorist attacks against hotels in Mumbai, India and the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan and added that those attacks "provide a sober illustration of the terrorists' ability to use different methods and tactics. "

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President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, said, "I condemn this cowardly terrorist attack targeting the Sri Lankan cricket team. The Sri Lankan players had gone to Pakistan as ambassadors of goodwill."

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The Sri Lankan Foreign minister has said the Sri Lankan cricket team "will give highest consideration to the invitation extended to it to undertake visit again.

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"The facilitators of the terrorists who carried out attacks on the Inter-Services Intelligence building, the Naval War College, the Federal Investigation Agency office, the Sri Lankan cricket team and the police training school in Lahore were from organisations operating in Punjab," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "These forces have primarily joined hands to target the security forces,"

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"Although the information given to India is being kept highly secret, broad outlines of the dossier available with Dawn reveal details of Indian contacts with those involved in attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team and the Manawan police station," the newspaper said. "Operatives of RAW who remained in touch with the perpetrators of the attacks have been identified and proof of their interaction have been attached,"

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Voicing concern over the attacks on Sri Lankan Team in Pakistan in March, he had said "And while we work we heard the news of the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore as they were going to the stadium to play their match against Pakistan.

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The chairman of the committee Jamshed Khan Dasti said: "We have asked the Interior Ministry and provincial home departments to initiate criminal proceedings as early as possible against all those who showed negligence while performing their security duties during the visit of Sri Lankan cricket team." "Nobody will be spared who has damaged sports in any way. If needed we will meet the President Asif Ali Zardari and the Prime Minister and request them to abolish all those legislations which are badly hurting the sports in the country and were implemented during the tenure of the former President Pervaiz Musharraf."

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He said it was "inexplicable" that the incidents like the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, attack on Sri Lankan cricket team and on a police training academy had not "galvanised the Pakistan Army and civilian leaders to link arms in a comprehensive, sustained campaign to fight back.

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"As several members of the three banned groups have taken part in the Afghan war, they have developed a nexus with the Taliban," a senior CID officer said. "In the suicide bombings of the Naval War College and Federal Investigation Agency office in Lahore and the terrorist attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team and police training school in Manawan, the facilitators of the perpetrators were from these organisations operating in Punjab," the officer said.

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"Tribal area based terrorists are planning to target Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani through a combination of explosion and a suicide attack, or guerilla attack similar to (that on) the Sri Lankan cricket team and (on) the Manawan police training centre," the letter said. "Three teams of terrorists are reported to be working simultaneously at Islamabad, Lahore and Multan,"

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