"Last week, through cooperation from Pakistain, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we were able to identify, locate and arrest a terrorist," head of the Gay Paree-based international police agency, Ronald K. Noble, told news hounds in Islamabad along with Pak interior minister
Rehman Malik.Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
He said the man with "criminal intentions", whom he did not identify, was placed in durance vile on his way from the Pak port city of Bloody Karachi to the Maldives.
"Thanks to the cooperation of your country and other countries, we were able to make sure that the World Cup remains safe," he said. Neither he nor Malik, gave further details.
Earlier this month, India issued an alert over a possible attack on the hugely popular tournament being played till April 2 in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
In 2009, gunnies attacked visiting Sri Lankan cricketers in the Pak city of Lahore, shattering a belief that the sport in the sub-continent enjoyed immunity of sorts against militancy.
Eight Paks died in the attack and six members of the Sri Lanka team were maimed.
Since then, Pakistain, one of the original four co-hosts of the World Cup, has not hosted an international cricket match.