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Lahore: The commission headed by Justice Raza Rizvi, investigating in attack on Sri Lankan team held local police responsible for the mishap on March 3.
Rizvi said, ‘Security arrangements failed because the local police officers fled away from the scene during the attack.’
Justice Rizvi said, ‘Security arrangements were so faulty that anybody could have easily attacked the team.’
A coordinated, commando-style ambush on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan revealed embarrassing security gaps in an increasingly unstable country.
With eight dead in Lahore, not even cricket, a cherished national pastime, seemed secure after 12 gunmen carrying sacks of weapons attacked a bus bearing the Sri Lankan team and then escaped in motorized rickshaws. A video of the attacks was broadcast around the world, destabilizing images for a nation under siege from an insurgency by Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
