Lahore cyber cafe owner held for e-mail threat to New Zealand cricketers

Police have traced an e-mail that threatened the New Zealand cricket team against touring Pakistan to an internet cafe in the eastern city o...

Police have traced an e-mail that threatened the New Zealand cricket team against touring Pakistan to an internet cafe in the eastern city of Lahore and arrested its owner, an official said today. The owner was arrested late last night and told investigators the e-mail address belonged to another man, aged in his early 20s, who frequented the cafe, said Khawaja Khalid Farooq, the chief of Lahore Police.

Farooq did not identify the cafe owner. He said the person who sent the e-mail was probably playing a prank. New Zealand’s scheduled tour was put in jeopardy last week when the two-sentence anonymous e-mail threatening the team’s safety was received by a New Zealand diplomatic mission.

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However, New Zealand Cricket announced today in Wellington that the tour will go ahead, but begin a week later than scheduled at the request of the Pakistan Cricket Board. The five-match one-day series will begin on November 29, rather than November 20.

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It will be New Zealand’s first visit to Pakistan since May 2002 when they fled the country after a bomb exploded outside their hotel in the southern port city of Karachi. Fourteen people were killed in the blast, including 12 foreign workers. None of the cricketers were hurt.

There was no immediate comment on the arrest by the PCB.

“We, together with intelligence agencies and cyber experts, are working on the case. So far it does not seem to be the work of some professional. Instead some youngster did it to create a sensation, ” Farooq said.

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