Sri Lankan sportsmen pay respect to cricketers’ protectors

Lankan baseball team pays respects to five policemen who died in attack on cricket team two years ago.


Express April 19, 2011

LAHORE:


The Sri Lankan baseball team visited Liberty Roundabout on Monday to pay their respects to five policemen who died in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team two years ago.


On March 3, 2009, gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus near the roundabout, killing six people including five police personnel, and injuring several others including members of the cricket team.

Senior police officers accompanied the 20-member Sri Lankan baseball team to the site of the attack, where there is a plaque commemorating the fallen policemen: Elite Force Constables Zafar Iqbal, Mubashir Nadeem and Faisal Rasheed, Elite Force driver Muhammad Sultan and Mujahid Squad Constable Tipu Farid.  Pakistan Baseball Federation president Shaukat Javeed thanked the visitors. He said the police had laid down their lives to protect their guests and were ready to do so again.

The manager of the baseball team said the team and players appreciated the security given to them in Pakistan and he would convey this to people back home. He said that the sacrifices of the policemen who died defending the cricketers would not be forgotten.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2011.

COMMENTS (5)

Pakistani57 | 12 years ago | Reply @Ravi @Mjmannish : shame on you! give respect to get respect these policemen were the first ones targeted (RPG) in that attack. I sense a little jealousy, just because your country is full of xenophobic madmen doesn't mean every country does.
Mjmannish | 12 years ago | Reply They should have known the pathetic display of bravery before paying their tribute.
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