MELBOURNE, Aug 8 AAP - Australia Test cricketer Mark Waugh today echoed his brother Steve's reservations about touring Pakistan in October after the latest violence.

Six Pakistanis were shot dead in an attack on a school for children of foreign missionaries near Islamabad on Monday.

"Obviously what happened two days ago with the shooting at the international school puts a few more question marks over the tour," Waugh told Melbourne radio station Sport 927 today.

"There's no doubt about that. I think the ACB (Australian Cricket Board) would be first to admit that."

Several other senior players have also expressed reservations about the tour.

On Tuesday, Test captain Steve Waugh said he would be happy to go to Pakistan if it was deemed safe, but stressed the players would rely on information from other sources.

"I think every one (of the players) would have some slight reservations after what's happened in the past, it's only natural," Steve said.

"You've really got to be guided by High Commissions and those places tell you what the feeling is, whether it's safe for tourists to go there.

"If it's deemed safe enough to go, then I'm quite happy to go, but if they say it's not then the (Australian Cricket Board) will make that decision (not to go)."

New Zealand pulled out of its Pakistan tour in May after a bomb near its hotel killed 14 people in Karachi.

ACB spokesman Pat O'Beirne said the latest attack "adds some currency" to advice the board is receiving from Australian Government officials and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

"The tragic recent incident has increased concern about the tour," O'Beirne said today.

"We will continue to monitor our information over the next short while."

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