ODI switched to Lahore over S Africa security fears

MULTAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) The fifth one-day international between Pakistan and South Africa scheduled for Karachi on Monday has been switched to Lahore because of security fears, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said today.

Shafqat Naghmi, the PCB's chief executive, said the touring South Africans did not want to play in Karachi following last week's bomb attacks on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's convoy that killed 139 people.

''They didn't want to play in Karachi because they had concerns over the security situation following the bomb blast there last week,'' Naghmi told Reuters.

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