Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday said Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir facilitated the talks between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, resulting in the latter’s cricket team deciding to stay in Islamabad.
“Our field marshal himself spoke to their defence minister, secretary and convinced them and assured them fully of [providing] security,” Naqvi told a Senate session today.
Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan will proceed, the visiting team’s cricket board said late Wednesday night, as a crisis-like situation was averted with the team’s manager eventually dismissing reports about some players returning home in the wake of the suicide bombing in the federal capital.
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