Suicide bombing in Pakistan and car explosion in India kill at least 20 people and heighten tensions between nuclear neighbours

The Sri Lankan board also ended the statement with the threat of a formal review against players who ignore its directive to continue with the tour.

The rare explosions in the country’s capitals have not been directly linked, but there are fears the governments will blame each other after their previous military conflict alarmed the world.

The Pakistan vs Sri Lanka cricket series has been rescheduled by one day due to security concerns after a suicide bombing in Islamabad

Sri Lanka have only played one of the three ODIs that were scheduled, and also have a T20I tri-series to play in Pakistan immediately after. Significant numbers of players leaving the tour at this stage would also put the tri-series (in which Zimbabwe are the other team) at risk as well.

An explosion injured at least eight people outside a court building in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Tuesday, a police spokesperson said. Some of them are in critical condition, he said. "We are probing what kind of blast it was.

Judges, lawyers and officials who carried out rulings under Pakistan’s un-Islamic laws were targeted,' the Pakistan Taliban said in a statement, claiming responsibility for the attack