April 5th 2011 - Pakistan authorities have arrested six men wanted in regard to the March 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team and match officials, according to reports this week from Lahore, the city in which the atrocity took place (E-News 380-2021, 4 March 2009).  The 'New York Times', quoting a police official in that city, said that "the aim of the operation was to kidnap Sri Lankan players and exchange them for Taliban prisoners". 

A separate report late last month from Colombo, claimed that two years on from the attack that killed nine people and left an umpire and others critically injured, action against police officers who were assigned to provide security to the team is still pending despite the findings of a Pakistani judicial commission (E-News 743-3646, 19 March 2011).  However, it is very difficult to determine just what the truth of any reports about the attack are, for the whole issue is clouded by rumour, innuendo, and flawed reporting.    

Ashan Raza, the Pakistani umpire who was critically injured in the attack, later recovered and returned to umpiring, working in one instance as the third umpire in a Test match for the first time at the home of cricket, Lord's, last July (E-News 633-3156, 14 July 2010).  Others directly involved in the frightening events in Lahore, Australians Steve Davis and Simon Taufel, will be taking part in the 2011 World Cup Final later today (E-News 752-3691 above).

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