The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to a key suspect in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.
Malik Ishaq, one of the founders of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, had appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC), which had rejected his bail plea earlier.
Ishaq had been accused of plotting the attack while he was in prison.
According to The Express Tribune, Ishaq was granted bail, as the chargers against him could not be proved.
The attack on the Sri Lankan team occurred on March 3, 2009, when a bus carrying the cricketers was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against Pakistan.
Six members of the Sri Lankan team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed.
These were the first attacks on a national sports team since the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian militants in 1972.
The attack was carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the outlawed militant groups with close links to Al-Qaeda. (ANI)
