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Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir assured Sri Lankan Defence Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon that Sri Lankan cricketers touring Pakistan would remain safe after several players asked to return home following a suicide bomb blast.

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told Pakistan’s parliament on Thursday that Sri Lankan authorities had been given “foolproof security" guarantees, with army and paramilitary forces deployed to protect the visiting team after the deadly blast in Islamabad heightened concerns.

Naqvi said Sri Lankan players had expressed serious reservations about staying on after the suicide bombing outside an Islamabad court on Tuesday, which killed 12 people and injured 27 in one of the capital’s worst attacks in years. The attack was followed by militan

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