{"id":8065,"date":"2017-10-20T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:17:04","slug":"pakistan-assures-security-to-sri-lankan-team-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-assures-security-to-sri-lankan-team-in-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan assures security to Sri Lankan team in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka should not entertain any fears over its cricket team visiting Lahore, Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are glad that Sri Lanka has decided to visit Pakistan. Our people will cheer for both teams,&#8221; Janjua said last night while answering a question.<\/p>\n<p>She was addressing the Pakistan Alumni Association&#8217;s inaugural meeting here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have no security fears we assure the safety and security for the visit,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka will play a T20 International (the third and final T20I) in Lahore on October 29 at the end of their current series with Pakistan being played in UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Cricket decided to go ahead with the visit to Lahore despite security concerns raised by some 40 contracted players on going there.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka were the last international side to tour Pakistan in 2009 and since then Pakistan have been using UAE as their offshore home venue.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s team bus came under a terrorist attack near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore in March 2009, causing injuries to several players. Seven people &#8212; including six Paksitani policemen &#8212; were killed in that attack.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka should not entertain any fears over its cricket team visiting Lahore, Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has said. &#8220;We are glad that Sri Lanka has decided to visit Pakistan. Our people will cheer for both teams,&#8221; Janjua said last night while answering a question. She was addressing the Pakistan Alumni Association&#8217;s inaugural meeting [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}