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Pakistan will host a third and final cricket match against Zimbabwe on Sunday despite a bomb attack near the venue on Friday, officials say.
A policeman was killed and six wounded when the bomber blew himself up during a one-day international in Lahore.
Initially, police said the blast had been accidental. The teams played on.
Until the current tour, there had been no international cricket in Pakistan since a bus carrying the Sri Lankan team was attacked by gunmen in 2009.
Commenting on Friday's explosion, a spokesman for the Pakistan Cricket Board said: "The incident has not affected the tour. Zimbabwe's tour will continue."
The players, he added, were satisfied with security arrangements against of Sunday's final one-day international.
Thousands of security personnel have been deployed.
However the International Cricket Council has refused to send any match officials for the series because of security concerns.
The police initially claimed the blast near Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium had been caused by an electric transformer.
But the Pakistani information minister later confirmed it had been a suicide attack and that the police officer died when he tried to stop the bomber. No group has said it carried out the attack.
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