From Aniruddha, Australia
The CT has been postponed till oct 2009. The PCB had done all it could to provide security and infrastructure for the event to take place but 4 major nations pulled out and thus the tournament has been postponed. Pakistanis have been saying that bomb blasts have become part of our life be it in Pakistan, Mumbai or London and hence Pakistan should not be isolated especially since they have done their best to provide Presidential security.
My point is, the Pakistani government has to do a lot more for the world to believe that the common Pakistani people are as much victims of terrorism as anywhere else in the world, rather than being looked upon as those who support and breed terrorists. Cricket players are normal human beings who have families of their own, so it is not fair to expect them to be irresponsible to their families and risk their own lives. Presidential security was not good enough to save Benazir Bhutto and with Musharraf gone (perhaps the only man fighting against terrorists in Pakistan), no amount of security cover would suffice.
My final point is the standard of Pakistan cricket as it stands today. What attraction does one have of playing there? By not playing against Pakistan, you are no longer missing playing against Wasim, Waqar, Inzi. Yes Yousuf and Younis are world class but just as the security cover, that's not good enough. A word for the cricketer who voiced concern over playing in Pakistan. Cricketers are not soldiers and live in a free world, no one can force them to play. If the soldiers had this freedom, I doubt if they would be fighting in Pakistan.
World cup 2011? Your guess is as good as mine.
"rather than being looked upon as those who support and breed terrorists"
A common Pakistani is as much guilty of supporting and breeding Taleban as a common Indian is of supporting and breeding ULFA, Maoists, VHP, Modi etc etc or a common Englishman is of supporting and breeding BNP.
"Presidential security was not good enough to save Benazir Bhutto"
It was not good enough to save the Gandhis either.
"Cricket players are normal human beings"
Just like everyone else. Players are selected/contracted to play for their country which is a member of ICC. Why should players refuse to tour when the ICC deems it to be perfectly safe? Do you as a passenger check the plane's engines and kick the tyres before boarding a plane to make sure it's safe... No because you are not the pilot and airlines generally are not morons.
What has standard of cricket in Pakistan got to do with the tour. Visitors still have to honour their commitment to tour if they are members of ICC.
Hi Anilbuddha. So it's pretty obvious that you’re not a fan of Pakistan. You've hinted twice in your ignorant and pathetic little piece that the Pakistani people are in favour of terrorists; even breeding them. Could you let me know on what grounds you’re making such assumptions? Please let us know what credentials you have that warrant these judgments you’re making… I mean ‘Musharraf is the only one fighting against the terrorists’? How did you come up with that? Of course, you do have a point... I mean why wouldn't we support a group of madmen trying to kill us and completely destabilize our country. It’s pretty obvious your just some bitter Indian dude with too much time on your hand leaping on any opportunity to give Pakistan a bad name. We don’t need to prove anything to anyone mate; for every moron like you that forms opinions on a whole country based on what they see on their TV screens, there are much more broad minded individuals that understand the complexity of such issues.
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