10 March,2009 08:53 AM IST | | Agencies
Pakistani security agencies have identified a little-known militant, Muhammad Aqil, as the mastermind of the audacious attack on Sri Lankan cricketers here, but police have failed to nab him.
Security agencies conducted raids at several places after identifying Aqil, who has links to a banned militant group. However, the name of the group was not revealed, The Nation reported.
Aqil, who hails from Kahuta, managed to escape, but his accomplice Talat was captured, a private TV channel quoted sources as saying.
Talat and Aqil had been living in a flat near the Liberty traffic roundabout, where the Sri Lankan team was attacked on March 3 by a dozen gunmen who ambushed its luxury bus, leaving seven players and an assistant coach injured and eight people dead.
Talat purchased a mobile phone SIM that was used by the terrorists involved in the attack. Aqil masterminded the attack and was also in-charge of its execution, it added.
Police have detained nearly 100 people for questioning.
