Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday ruled out India's involvement in attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. He said attack on Sri Lankan cricketers could be the work of al-Qaeda.

'We've identified those who attacked SL cricketers'

Pakistani investigators have identified the terrorists behind the attack on the Sri lankan cricket team, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer said but did not name any of the suspects.

"We have identified the people who have carried out the attack. We are after them," Taseer said adding the Army and the intelligence agency, ISI, are helping in tracking down the gunmen.

Taseer said the investigators have found a large amount of weapons. "It was like a small army".

About a dozen gunmen ambushed the bus ferrying the Sri Lankan team to the Gaddafi stadium on Tuesday, leaving seven players and an assistant coach injured and eight people dead.

The gunmen fled after the attack.

The Governor said he did not want to share details as a high-level committee has been constituted to go into the attacks and submit its report within three days.

Investigators questioned five suspects who are believed to have helped the terrorists. The suspects claimed that the attackers had stayed in the city for a month before striking.

They are also trying to trace persons whose telephone numbers were found on the SIM cards of the mobile left behind by the terrorists.

One of the suspects, a resident of Rehmanpura, had a photograph of one of the attackers, the ‘Dawn’ newspaper said quoting sources.

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