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DomainK Newbie

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I blame the SriLankan board too for this. There was no reason to place such high confidence on that terrorist nation and it's terrorist rulers.Why the hell did they put their players at such a risk when no one else was ready to do so?
Blame that idiot Arjun Ranatunga. I think the only reason he did it was to take a stance opposite to India's.
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cochise Newbie

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Pakistan is a failing, if not failed state. The quicker other nations realise this, the better....leave alone cricket...no other nation should even think of playing any sport in Pakistan when it has become so wild and ungovernable...and they should revise other links as well...Pak's export of terrorism has now come home to roost. Things are getting seriously out of control there... Just imagine...after all the fuss about security and touring teams...they could not provide adequate security to the touring Lankan team even when under the spotlight and trying to prove themselves to the world. How bad are things there, do you reckon? Very bad.

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Gambit Collaborator

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This is the end

The least of the consequences of this disaster is that those who have advocated the continuation of international cricket in Pakistan - including me - have been proved wrong. No international team will now visit Pakistan, and the Pakistan Cricket Board should voluntarily arrange all future tours at neutral venues for the next year, may be longer. This the darkest day in the history of Pakistan cricket and it occurred in a pleasant suburb of Lahore, a once great city of gardens and tranquility, not far from my own family home in Pakistan. This is the end.
Link I hope you are right Abbasi. I really hope it's the end for Pak.
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Saad Shafqat on Cricinfo: What a ******** http://content-www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/393294.html

Shootout in Lahore This is a fire that threatens everyone Let us be clear - Gaddafi Stadium is not the only place where an attack on cricket will grab headlines Saad Shafqat March 3, 2009 What we had all feared has finally happened. A visiting cricket team has been attacked in Pakistan. A large cricket-watching audience that was anticipating the third day's play in the Test at Lahore has been left shocked and aghast. Everyone is hoping and praying that the players' injuries will heal quickly. This is a challenging time to be invoking hope and prayer. Pakistan has been burning and suffering for a long time now. Hope in these parts was already in short supply. At a time like this, it seems non-existent. You can already hear all cricket boards around the world say "we told you so." They kept saying Pakistan is not a safe country. They refused to visit. They have been proved right. The Pakistani authorities have been proved wrong. The raging fire that has consumed so much else of Pakistan's national fabric has now singed cricket, too. No cricket lover thought the worst-case scenario would ever come to pass. But it has. For quite a while now, opinion leaders in Pakistan cricket have argued that terrorists do not and will not target cricket. Well, so much for that. Cricket in this part of the world has now become a victim of its own success. Whatever evil mind planned this understood that attacking cricket would be the surest way not merely to grab the headlines but also to hang on to them for several news cycles. In the days and weeks to follow, the usual hand-wringing and the predictably endless hemming and hawing about the perpetrators of this attack will take place. A foreign hand will be blamed. Intelligence and security failures will be condemned. Official statements will be proffered. Almost certainly we, the cricket-following public, will be left more and more confused with each passing day. So where do we go from here? Whatever evil mind planned this understood that attacking cricket would be the surest way not merely to grab the headlines but also to hang on to them for several news cycles An important next step is for Pakistan's cricket authorities to accept that they are up against powerful elements well beyond the boundary, and well beyond their control. Restoring Pakistan's credibility as a cricketing host now requires some clear major development in the national political landscape and a sustained period of countrywide peace and stability. In the current circumstances, which find Pakistan politically adrift on a tense geo-political fault line, that is a very tall order. But it is not impossible. The other, equally critical move is for the world cricketing fraternity to stand with Pakistan against the terrorists. Let us be clear - Gaddafi Stadium is not the only place where an attack on cricket will grab headlines. This is a fire that threatens everyone, and everyone has to come together to understand it and fight it. Pakistan cricket has suffered other body blows before, but none has come so close to its jugular. In the immediate aftermath there are too many questions that need to be addressed but, sooner or later, the most difficult one will have to be confronted. We have to take a long and honest look at the forces and events that have led to a beloved pastime becoming transformed into a horrific platform for the perpetration of evil. We have to confront whatever ugly reality lies beneath these events and we have to conquer it. This is not a challenge Pakistan can deal with alone. All cricketing nations, in particular those in Pakistan's immediate neighbourhood, need to join forces and present a united front to the terrorism that has spared no one in South Asia. Abandoning Pakistan at this moment will be the easy way out. Let us not forget that in any difficult situation, the easy way out is never the right answer. Saad Shafqat is a writer based in Karachi
Right so how long did it take? A few hours? Already media opinion in Pakistan is growing that 1. The problem lies outside our boundaries and some "other" foreign force is behind this because you know, no Pakistani person has ever killed a Pakistani person ever before. 2. While we can't handle our problems ourselves, we need the rest of the world to help us or it's going to get worse (or as the writer vaguely threatens, "this is a fire that threatens everyone") The usual, nonsense reaction Pakistan has had when it's problems affect it's people and neighbours of holding a gun to it's head and demanding help or the situation will get worse, for everyone. What a cowardly, weak kneed, dopey headed, retard mentality.
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coffee_rules Grand Master

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they say when a neighbor's house is on fire...you are NEXT....
You know how the fires in Kuwaiti oil fields set by Saddam was quenched? Not with water pumps..but huge explosions next to them that puffed wind so strong, the fires were out in no time. I think we know how to quench the fire in our neighborhood.
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ucilite Newbie

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You know how the fires in Kuwaiti oil fields set by Saddam was quenched? Not with water pumps..but huge explosions next to them that puffed wind so strong' date=' the fires were out in no time. I think we know how to quench the fire in our neighborhood.[/quote'] only time will TELL
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Bumper Newbie

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they say when a neighbor's house is on fire...you are NEXT....
Thats right. Thats what we thought after the Mumbai attacks. Unfortunately, our neighbours didnt geddit. Speaking of 'they say's, here is something 'we say' in Indian villages: Do not interrupt your enemy when he is setting his own a.$$ on fire, as neither the a.$$ nor fire is any good for you.
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