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Pakistan Sends Srilanka Attack Report To ICC
KARACHI, Aug 17, 2010 (AFP) - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sent to the International Cricket Council (ICC) an official report on last year's terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.
"The ICC received the Lahore incident report from the PCB on August 3," a spokesman for the council, cricket's world governing body, told AFP on Tuesday.
However, he declined to comment on the report, or disclose any of its findings, saying only that "it is a confidential document."
PCB chief Ijaz Butt earlier confirmed he had sent the report to the ICC only after he had received approval from the Punjab government to do so.
"As the Punjab government had sent a copy of the report to the PCB with the instruction to keep it confidential, we were not in a position to forward the report to the ICC," local media had quoted Butt as saying earlier.
The PCB was severely criticised by former players and officials for delaying sending the report to the ICC, which had requested a copy of the document.
The 600-page report was compiled by Lahore High Court judge Shabbar Raza Rizvi, who was commissioned by the Punjab government to conduct an inquiry into the March 3 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team.
Experts believe judge Rizvi's report will help the ICC to brief its other member countries about the reasons for the attack and to help open the way to a resumption of cricket in Pakistan.
KARACHI, Aug 17, 2010 (AFP) - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sent to the International Cricket Council (ICC) an official report on last year's terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.
"The ICC received the Lahore incident report from the PCB on August 3," a spokesman for the council, cricket's world governing body, told AFP on Tuesday.
However, he declined to comment on the report, or disclose any of its findings, saying only that "it is a confidential document."
PCB chief Ijaz Butt earlier confirmed he had sent the report to the ICC only after he had received approval from the Punjab government to do so.
"As the Punjab government had sent a copy of the report to the PCB with the instruction to keep it confidential, we were not in a position to forward the report to the ICC," local media had quoted Butt as saying earlier.
The PCB was severely criticised by former players and officials for delaying sending the report to the ICC, which had requested a copy of the document.
The 600-page report was compiled by Lahore High Court judge Shabbar Raza Rizvi, who was commissioned by the Punjab government to conduct an inquiry into the March 3 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team.
Experts believe judge Rizvi's report will help the ICC to brief its other member countries about the reasons for the attack and to help open the way to a resumption of cricket in Pakistan.
