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Loading ...Horrible – one of those ‘things will never be the same again’ moments.
The real victims are Pakistanis
By Will last year, at the start of March Add your comment below
I don’t have much to add to today’s news which wouldn’t feel or sound contrite. The sense of inevitability was gut-wrenchingly strong that cricketers would be used as pawns in terrorists’ games of attention-seeking. It was going to happen at some point: a high-profile event, part of daily life for peaceful Pakistanis, now disrupted to the point of ruin.
In fuelling their own flawed agenda, they’ve not only ensured international cricket won’t be played in Pakistan for a significant amount of time, but they’ve brought the country closer and closer to being a failed state. Not a bad morning’s work, really.
But the real victims are Pakistanis themselves. If the last few years have been rocky, the next decade looks every bit as unsettled.
One final question: how long before Barack Obama wades in?
Tags: barack obama, pakistan, sri-lanka, terrorism, terrorists |
5 Responses to “The real victims are Pakistanis”
March 3rd, 2009 at 7.28 pm
March 3rd, 2009 at 9.04 pm
I agree with Reverse. So horrible – especially for all the direct victims.
Horrible beyond words.
March 4th, 2009 at 4.26 am
Obviously a terrible situation. No doubt Pakistan cricket will suffer but aren’t the real victims the policeman and their families and the Sri Lankan tour party?
You know, the people who died, the cricketers hospitalised and the rest of the innocent participants who are now traumatised by the incident.
March 4th, 2009 at 6.11 am
nesta, of course the real victims are the real victims, those who were died or hurt, and their families, but I know what Will is saying. I was watching it unfold on TV last night and was thinking: “There goes Pakistan — stumbling further into the dark.”
It was the same with the Bali bombings a few years back when Muslim extremists targetted nightclubs full of Aussie mpazand Kiwi tourists — a lot died. But in the end the bombers were hurting their own people, whatever the supposed agenda was — tourists stopped going to Bali. The people of Bali are dependent on tourism. They are pretty poor anyway. So if (relatively) wealthy tourists chose to take their custom elsewhere because they don’t want to be blown up in a Denpasar nightclub, it’s the people of Bali who suffer.
Not sure Obama has any greater cricketing skills than his predecessor. 
March 4th, 2009 at 2.45 pm
Poor article, why not spare a thought for the real victims instead of being so self-absorbed with cricket?
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