[Lahore] Pakistani Gunmen shoot at Sri Lankan cricketers

I was listening about this story and it shows how bad shape that Pakistan is one. While a lot of suspician is on local groups like Laskhar e Toiba there is also some possibility that this might've been a move by the Tamil Tigers.

 

That sounds like what the Russians did in Afghanistan.

 

I think that's a bit exxagerated.

 

I wouldn't say Pakistan is a failed state - it's just one that is facing some serious crisis. Musharaf as bad as he was at least had half a brain.

It's a very scary situation. We definitely need an emergency back-up plan that involved all the major powers as well as India.

But there is a need to get the gov't in the right direction, fight the terrorist networks, and somehow build infrastructure in that country to give them some sort of economic hope for it's people.

 

I don't know much about the internal demographics of Pakistan, but apparently the fact that this happened in Lahore as opposed to the western parts of the country is a big deal:

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Anyway, after reading all the BBC, NYT, Guardian, Reuters, AP etc coverage of the Lahore attacks on the Sri Lankan team, Londonstani thought to turn to a much trusted source of information on all things cricket - http://www.cricinfo.com/. And he wasn't disappointed. Writer Kamran Abbasi sums up the sheer; "are you serious?!" factor in all this.
<blockquote><i>"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."</i></blockquote>
The context you need to know about this attack lies between Abbasi's lines. <b>This is Lahore we are talking about. Not Peshawar, or volatile Karachi, or even the capital. This is Lahore, Pakistan's "safe" cultural city, where to most residents the trouble on the border might as well be happening across it in Afghanistan.</b>
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Read the first part and I initially agreed that the situation is desperate enough to warrant that. But then I read the second paragraph and from the comments it seems you just have blind hate for the country.

 

Is this part of the Stimulus Bill's $162,000 for cricket control in Utah?

 

You just put up a bunch of subjective arguements to validate your points.

no "direct" evidence "linking" terrorist to "ties" in pakistan. That's like 3 degrees of connections. I think you can say that for just about any country right?

Could you provide some examples of how the country trying to defend itself from blame of harboring terrorist is parallel to the state of its economy? I could swear it was because Pakistan really has no strong source of natural resources and the fact that education doesn't have enough funds. I didn't know that Pakistan "owning up" to the blame would solve its economic problems.