Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The attack on cricket

Well, you would have seen and heard the news regarding the attack on Sri Lanka cricketers. If not for the driver and some lucky breaks there could have been a full fledged massacre in the bus. The security provided for the team was clearly (please get over it Pakistan!) inadequate. To just have 10 to 15 police officials around the bus and the ammunition they had to defend cricketers was so low that they could not even stop one of the terrorists. I mean if a president was attacked would it be the same? Is this what you call presidential level security! Now, there are section of Pakistan media blaming India for sending in terrorists. As long as there is a segment of population in Pakistand that believe such inane chatter there is no end in sight for terrorism in the country. It seems ridiculous even to talk of cricket at this point in the country. I think at least for the enxt 3-4 years there is no likelihood of cricket. For god sake the cricketers from Sri Lanka might take 3-4 years to fully recover from what they went through. Its scary and mind blowing to say the least. I mean having bullets fizz past your years is not what they went to Pakistan for. The tension among the family members when they landed in Lanka was perceivable and demonstrates the risk they were in!

Anyway I just hope someday these lunatics realzie that what they are trying to achieve though violence is meaningless. But who am I kidding. They are called lunatics for a reason!

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