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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kasuwa1235" data-source="post: 4949837" data-attributes="member: 65783">Pakistani police said Wednesday they had arrested one of seven men accused of plotting the deadly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore in March. Six policemen and two civilians were killed and seven Sri Lankan squad members were injured when militants launched a gun and grenade attack on the team as they travelled to a match on March 3. "We have identified seven men accused of planning the attack and one of them has been arrested," Lahore police chief Pervez Rathor told reporters. Rathor identified the suspect as Zubair, also known by his alias Nek Mohammad, who appeared at the televised press conference in Pakistan's cultural hub Lahore with his face completely covered in a black mask. "We came to Lahore two days before the attack," Zubair shouted through his mask, adding that they had lodged in a small house on the outskirts of Lahore. All the seven accused belong to a previously unknown group named as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Punjab network, the police chief said, adding that the mastermind was a man named Farooq, who remained at large. Rathor said the other six men -- one of whom he accused of being involved in a rocket attack on former president Pervez Musharraf in 2007 -- may have fled to the lawless tribal region of Waziristan on the Afghan border. On March 3, the Sri Lankan cricket squad were being taken by bus to the ground in Lahore for the third day of the second Test against Pakistan when up to 12 men attacked the convoy of officials, coaches and players. Firing automatic weapons, grenades and a rocket launcher as the convoy was nearing the Gaddafi stadium, they began a firefight which turned the upmarket district into a battlezone. Initial speculation was that the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group accused of the deadly Mumbai attacks late last year was also behind the cricket attack, but they denied any links to the commando-style assault. AFP<a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=52170" target="_blank">http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=52170</a></blockquote>

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