Terror strikes Lankan team
7 cricketers injured as militants open fire
on their bus in Lahore; 5 cops die; 
tour cancelled
In a brazen attack on a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, a dozen masked gunmen wounded six players and a British coach and killed at least six Pakistanis (eight as per Reuters), including five police escort.

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Unscheduled trouble

More Kasabs in action? A video grab shows gunmen firing in the direction of a police vehicle in Lahore on Tuesday. — Reuters	SECURITY PIERCED: A bullet hole is seen on a windowpane of the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. — Reuters

Shock in Lanka
Sri Lankan authorities chartered a special flight to Lahore on Tuesday afternoon to bring home the members of its national cricket team, who were the target of a terrorist attack in Pakistan on Tuesday morning. The attack has left many Sri Lankans shaken, particularly the cricket fans.

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New Delhi, March 3
India today voiced its strong condemnation of the dastardly attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, warning that such incidents would continue to occur until Pakistan dismantled the terrorist infrastructure on its territory and toughened its stance against those behind terrorist incidents.

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Typical LeT strike: Security agencies
New Delhi, March 3
Security agencies in India have pointed out that the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore today had the hallmark of Lashkar-e-Toiba. Sources said it was typical of the LeT to carry out such attacks as it was feeling the heat after a massive crackdown on its leaders.

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Pakistan is ‘time bomb waiting to explode’
New Delhi, March 3
Even as the political class reacted with shock and dismay over the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore the general feeling here is that Pakistan has to realise the gravity of the situation and the people there should rise up to terrorists there.

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New Delhi, March 3
Even as the BJP is struggling hard to retain its NDA allies within the fold without conceding them any extra seat share in the ensuing general elections, the party is already eyeing the nascent Third Front, announced by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda in Bangalore yesterday.

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