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The authorities has handed implicit the information of the visiting Sri Lankan squad to the Pakistan Military forces aft they agreed to proceed the circuit connected the involution of Army main Asim Munir aft a serial weaponry blasts rocked Islamabad.
The president of PCB and Federal Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi said that since authorities level information is present being provided to the visiting squad their information is present being looked aft by the service and rangers successful conjunction with the police.
Mr. Naqvi besides told the media successful Rawalpindi connected Thursday (November 13, 2025) nighttime erstwhile helium met with the Pakistani and Sri Lankan players astatine the stadium that the Sri Lankan authorities and committee had shown large enactment for Pakistan cricket by continuing with the tour.
He confirmed that immoderate Sri Lankan players wanted to instrumentality location owed to information concerns aft the panic onslaught successful Islamabad.
"The affirmative result was lone achieved done sustained engagement betwixt Pakistani and Sri Lankan leadership," helium said.
He besides confirmed that Army Chief Munir had assured Sri Lankan Defence Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon of the team's safety.
"The Field Marshal himself spoke to the Sri Lankan Defence Minister and Secretary and I americium grateful the players showed large bravery to determine to stay successful Pakistan," helium added.
Mr. Naqvi said that helium himself had held a agelong gathering with the Sri Lankan players to guarantee them their information and good being was the work of the Pakistan government.
"They had galore concerns, but we tried to allay each of those," Mr. Naqvi said, highlighting that Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake spoke with his country’s squad to person them.
The New Zealand squad had abandoned their achromatic shot circuit of Pakistan successful September 2021 aft getting creditable intel astir information threats to them successful Rawalpindi.
