The PCB has vowed to make a complaint to the ICC after claims made by match referee Chris Broad about the terror attack in Lahore.

Former England opener Broad and Muralitharan have spoken critically about the safety measures that were put in place as players and officials travelled to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third day of the second Test, with Butt dismissing their testimony as "untrue" and "fabricated".

Both parties were caught in crossfire in an attack which saw six policemen lose their lives, local umpire Ahsan Raza sustain a bullet wound to the stomach and seven of the Sri Lanka squad left injured.

Broad, who emerged shaken but physically unscathed from the ambush, said that a promise of "presidential-style" security in reality left them like "sitting ducks".

Muralitharan, meanwhile, has queried whether the security detail offered to his team were properly trained.

But PCB chairman Butt has dismissed their comments out of hand.

"No security? Non sense"

"Match referee Chris Broad's statement is fabricated," he said at a news conference.

"There was no change in the level of security. I will lodge a complaint with the ICC against his (Broad's) statement.

"Muralitharan's allegations that there weren't any security personnel travelling with the team bus is also untrue.

"This is an unfortunate incident and policemen have lost their lives.

"In any case, people who escaped the tragedy without even a scratch should not be pointing fingers at the same security men who died saving them."

He added: "Security is a specialised task so we leave it to the security forces. It is the responsibility of the government and our involvement is limited.

Routine procedure

"This is the practice everywhere in the world and with all the other boards."

The ICC had yet to receive a formal complaint at the time of Butt's words but what was already due to be an intense meeting of the ICC board in Dubai next month could now be increasingly fraught.

Safety initiatives, anti-terror measures and, indeed, the mid-term future of international cricket in Pakistan, were sure to be up for discussion anyway but now the PCB may choose to air some of their own grievances about the aftermath.

An ICC spokesman told PA Sport: "The ICC, as has already been stated, can confirm that a scheduled board meeting will be taking place in Dubai in the middle of next month.

Issues need to be discussed

"Mr Ijaz Butt will be present at that meeting and we are certain that all issues of security for players and officials will be at the top of the agenda."

Butt admitted today he did not expect any teams to visit Pakistan in the next six or seven months, but there were further developments when the Bangladesh Cricket Board postponed Pakistan's tour of the country, which was due to begin next week.

The sides were due to contest two Twenty20 matches and five one-day internationals, starting in Dhaka on March 10.

"We were advised by the home ministry to postpone the tour for the time being," said Mohammad Jalal Yunus, chairman of the BCB's media committee.

"We are now working with the PCB and our government agencies on a new itinerary which will be announced soon."

Still some chance

The PCB, who announced a 16-man squad for the tour, still expect to send a team later this month.

"Bangladesh have conveyed their decision to us without giving any reason," PCB chief executive officer Saleem Altaf said.

"We are told they are revising the tour itinerary and the series will be held after some delay."