Admitting that the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers was a "complete security lapse," a report on the incident by Pakistani authorities has blamed "some foreign countries" for the audacious strikes, while giving a clean chit to outlawed terror groups - LeT and JuD.

The attack was planned and financed by "some foreign countries" and militants based in the restive South Waziristan tribal region might have been used by the perpetrators, Dawn newspaper quoted the report as saying.