{"id":1470,"date":"2009-03-05T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T08:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/05\/match-referee-blames-pak-forces-for-attacks\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T08:54:19","slug":"match-referee-blames-pak-forces-for-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/match-referee-blames-pak-forces-for-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Match referee blames Pak forces for attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009-03-05:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Chris Board, the ICC match referee who was involved in the deadly attacks on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has criticised&nbsp;the Pakistani security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Board says he suspects insiders may have helped 12 assailants kill six police officers and a bus driver in Tuesday&#39;s attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">The assailants targeted the two buses as they were heading towards Gaddafi Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Three foreign umpires in the second bus were unhurt, while Pakistani Ahsan Raza, a fourth match official, was shot in the chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Seven Sri Lankan players and their assistant coach were among 19 people injured<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">A reward of $125,000 has been offered for help in finding those behind Tuesday&#39;s attack, for which no one has claimed responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009-03-05: &nbsp;&nbsp; Chris Board, the ICC match referee who was involved in the deadly attacks on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has criticised&nbsp;the Pakistani security forces. &nbsp; Board says he suspects insiders may have helped 12 assailants kill six police officers and a bus driver in Tuesday&#39;s attack. &nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[1098,1142,891],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-interviews","tag-match-referee-blames-pak-forces-for-attacks","tag-the-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-nI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 15:49:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}