'Pakistan now safe'
Former Sri Lanka skipper Sanath Jayasuriya said Thursday that Pakistan was safe to host foreign cricket teams, as he arrived to lead an international all-star XI in two Twenty20 matches.
Jayasuriya will captain the International World XI, featuring former South African Test players Andre Nel and Nantie Hayward, against Pakistan All Stars, led by current all-rounder Shahid Afridi.
Overseas sides have shunned Pakistan over security fears since militants attacked the Sri Lankan team bus during a Test in Lahore in 2009, killing eight people.
But Jayasuriya, who was part of the Sri Lankan one-day squad two months before the tragic 2009
incident, said he hoped this weekend's matches would help internationals return to the cricket-mad country.
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