Interpol says foiled militant attack on cricket World Cup

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Interpol said today it had foiled a militant plot to carry out an attack during the cricket World Cup now being played across South Asia.

“Last week, through cooperation from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we were able to identify, locate and arrest a terrorist,” head of the France-based international police agency, Ronald K Noble, told reporters in Islamabad along with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

He said the man with “criminal intentions”, whom he