Pakistani investigation team will travel to Sri Lanka to probe reports that elements were linked to the terrorist attack.
The Interior Minister Rehman Malik confirmed it on Friday.
The terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore earlier this year.
The A high-powered team has already been constituted to visit the in the island nation, Malik told a TV news channel.
"Attack on players funded by SL elements"
The Sri Lankan government has handed over some important clues that are being examined and these leads are expected to help nab the persons behind the attack, he said.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani recently directed Malik to send a team of experts to Sri Lanka to investigate reports that elements in the island nation were linked to the attack on the Sri Lankan players in March.
Gilani has said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave him clues linking elements in Sri Lanka with terrorist attacks in Pakistan, including the strike on the Sri Lankan cricket team, during a recent meeting in Libya.
Eight persons were killed and over 20 others, including several Sri Lankan players, injured when terrorists ambushed the team's motorcade at a busy traffic roundabout on March 3.
Malik also said that India should refrain from levelling allegations against Pakistan with regard to the conduct of the probe into last year's Mumbai attacks.
"We should bring to the fore those who are creating misunderstandings between the two nations," he said.
He asked his Indian counterpart P Chidambaram to "exercise discretion as this is not the time for levelling allegations".
The trial of five suspects arrested for alleged involvement in the Mumbai incident had already begun in Pakistan, he said. Pakistan has offered India all kinds of cooperation and is even prepared to send a team to India to help probe the Mumbai incident, Malik added.
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