'A' tour continues despite Lahore bomb blasts

Twin bomb blasts in Lahore on Thursday posed no threat to Australia A's on-going tour, according to a senior Pakistan cricket official. "We have met Australia officials and assured them of a safe tour," the board's general manager, Zakir Khan, told AFP.

The two explosions killed six people and injured more than 30 others. Australia A, who earlier lost the two-match series 1-0, were due to play the first of three one-day matches in Lahore on Friday and the remaining two on September 25 and 27.

"We have shifted Friday's match from Bagh-e-Jinnah to Gaddafi Stadium because of rain and it has nothing to do with security," said Khan. Australia A's manager Bernard Robertson agreed the tour would continue. "Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday," Robertson told AFP. "I don't have any further comment to make."

Pakistan host England for three Tests and five ODIs from October 26 and the ECB has already refused to play a Test in the port city of Karachi. The ECB has said it would monitor security in Pakistan before the tour begins.