Oh, I don’t know. Even India refused to play there (and I say even because India is a country supposedly more ‘used to’ such security concerns, whatever that may mean)…If England is adamant about not going there, I don’t see much the PCB will do about it, though you never know…

Thanks God England are playing at least a one-day match here, I would have wanted to see them play a test and a one-day both ideally, but this isn’t an ideal world and something is better then nothing, so I’ll settle for this.

Karachi not getting a game would have been massively disappointing. This is the largest, arguably the most passionate, most sophisticated, most unpartisan group of cricket fans in this country the ECB were thinking about deriving the opportunity to watch their favorite game …it would have been an injustice if you ask me.

The alleged security concerns are no less big or smaller then for any other normal, modern, urban metropolis. Speaking WRT to within Pakistan at least Karachi is no more or less vulnerable then any of the other 5 cities England had no problems in playing i.e. Pindi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan, in fact one might argue it is technically safer then Faislabad and Multan. Other countries just want to make a fuss about it because the PCB has had a history of being somewhat soft on this issue, and because we’re a 3rd world country. And because other countries simply enjoy making fuss.