News bureaus don't have that many people in Karachi precisely because of the reason that it is so violent and dangerous. Be logical - It's a violent city in a violent part of the world where terrorist attacks are a semi-routine event (something like a few thousand fatalites every year there for the last decade) - of course it's going to generate less press coverage than the Rogers kid from a few weeks ago.
they can use news feed coverage from local news agencies.. nothing logistically impossible about getting people the information they deserve in this day and age. you're really reaching for a sane explanation as to why the USA is sheltered from this event's coverage
Elephant in the room - in the name of which ideology do the Taliban carry out their terrorist attacks and who funds them?
It's not really a reach to figure out that nobody really cares that much here. Though I don't even watch TV news and nor does anybody else I know under age 60 - so perhaps I'm not the best person to judge the exact proportion of "guys with guns in pakistan killing each other again" coverage.
Why not combine Pakistan with Iran or Afghanistan, rather than with India? Excuse me? Go educate yourself, kid.
I'm very well educated in this subject matter. Thanks. But you might not realize that Pakistan has become a headache to ALL its neighbors. Pakistan needs friends on their side. Iran would've been perfect but they managed to screw that up to nobody's surprise. But that's what happens when you have incompetent unqualified staff in the ministry of foreign affairs. Everyone including Pakistanis/muslims hate Pakistan. Prove otherwise. Pakistan was formed on the basis of religion and hate towards India. BBC World poll shows Pakistan as the second most hated country behind Iran. It's more hated than North Korea!! I'm not flying there and something like this should be expected.
Contrary to most of the opinions posted so far in this thread, this is big news. Usually these types of of threads receive little response because we have few Muslims on this board, and fewer people (none really on CF) from countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. As Muslim with ties to Pakistan, let me elaborate. Any place where extremist Islam has a hand gets a shrug, but that indifference means you miss the bigger picture. Karachi is the NYC of Pakistan, and so far it's been largely insulated from the daily terrorism in the border regions of NWFP and Balochistan. As an analogy to America, the rough spots have always been in New Mexico and Arizona, whereas Karachi is relatively tucked away in Maine and New Hampshire. The dangerousness of Karachi is similar to living in Bogota or Juarez: it's gang violence based on anti-sectarian politics, general lawlessness, and corruption. You're afraid of getting robbed, raped, and/or kidnapped instead of being blown to pieces like say in Baghdad which many of believe Karachi to be like. So far, there'd been an unwritten agreement to target those places and institutions in Karachi which weren't crucial to its economy. To use the NYC analogy again, the few terror attacks that happened in Karachi occurred in the Bronx. This attack on the airport changed all that. To this day, many Pakistanis are in denial about the danger of extremist Islam and their Saudi funders. For the first time, one of my Pakistani friends remarked that something had to be done about these dogs, after learning of this incident. What's interesting: the reigning political party in Pak thought it could negotiate peace with the Taliban as did many of its supporters. Now, slowly they're realizing that extremism isn't business as usual, that the future of the country is threatened by India so much as their 'own brothers in Islam.' TL;DR This attack isn't the same old same old in Pakistan. It's (finally) started conversations among people who've long been in denial of the dangers of extremist Islam.
So you're saying, this could be the event that pushes Karachi into a new state of dangerousness. The **** hit the fan with this one?
Nothing suprising. Pakistan is one of the most hated countries in the world and this kind of activities are all too common there. It is one of the main hubs of terrorism.
pinched between China and mortal enemy India, with a nuclear armed English tradition military, with some densest population centers on Earth, entrenched in poverty, massively divided between modern education and ancient tradition, rampant corruption at every level of the economy with the disenfranchised turning to radical religions for empowerment ... I don't know if hated is the word, but there are few other nations that would swap places with Pakistan. Oddly though, like Ukraine or The Congo, few places are blessed with more natural resources and get less quality of life out of them.
That's a pretty good description. They're too busy in-fighting and money-grabbing to realize their potential. Take heed red team/blue team punch-out fans.
