Pakistani cricket chiefs have approved the purchase of bulletproof buses as part of efforts to persuade foreign teams to return after a long suspension over security fears.
No international team has played in Pakistan since the March 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team bus in Lahore, which left eight people dead and seven visiting players wounded.
But the Pakistan Cricket Board hopes internationals could be revived as early as next year following the successful staging of two exhibition matches in Karachi involving an International World XI in Karachi at the weekend.
The PCB governing board met Thursday in Abbottabad - the garrison town north of Islamabad where Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid last year - to agree to buy the armoured transport.
