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Experts fear no sport for years

AFP, Karachi
A brazen commando attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team has wrecked Pakistan's chances of hosting another international sporting event for years, former players and officials fear.
The convoy of officials, coaches and Sri Lankan players was ambushed by gunmen firing automatic weapons, grenades and a rocket launcher as they were making their way for the third day of the second Test in Lahore on Tuesday.
Eight Pakistanis were killed. Seven Sri Lankan players and an assistant coach, as well as a Pakistani umpire, were wounded.
The Test was immediately called off and the tourists airlifted from the Gaddafi Stadium by military helicopters and flown home.
New Zealand hinted it would call off a scheduled cricket tour to Pakistan in November-December and next month's international squash event in Islamabad was scrapped.
Squash legend Jahangir Khan said he feared it could be years before Pakistan hosts international sporting events.
"What happened is tragic," the 10-time British and six-time world open champion told AFP. "We used to defend ourselves by saying that sports had never been hit, but Tuesday's events have left us nowhere.
"When we can stage international events will
depend on the security situation. I fear it will be in the distant future."
Former cricket captain Wasim Akram said Pakistan could no longer even invite foreign teams.
"Even before this event we were forced to play at neutral venues because of security fears. Now we can't even ask teams to come to our country'. The game is over for us now, 1 fear,' saidWasim
International sports were badly hit in Pakistan after the September 11.2001 artacks on the United States. Pakistan was forced to play its home series against the West Indies and Australia at neutral venues in 2002.
Field hockey, in which Pakistan has won three Olympic and four world titles, was also a major victim. The elite six-nation Champions Trophy was shifted from Pakistan to the Netherlands in 2001 and then again in 2007.
Pakistan is due to host the first Asian Champions Trophy in September — but the chances look bleak.
Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary Asif Bajwa said staging the event would depend on the outcome of the investigation into the Lahore attack
"If the outcome of the inquiry proves a foreign hand then we can't help it. but if it's an internal problem then we will have to bear the consequences," said Bajwa, who takes solace in the fact that no Sri Lankan was killed.