Background to this Post:
The attack on the Sri Lankan Cricket team bus at Lahore,when they were going to Gaddafi Stadium.10 to 12 heavily armed terrorists opened fire using modern weapons,used rocket launcher.Killed 6 to 7 pakistani security personnel.Not a single terrorists who attacked were caught or killed or even injured.Later some footages released in some pak news channel showed the attackers casually walking away and vanishing from the scene in motor bykes...!!
The Match refree,the Australian umpires,Sril Lankan spinner Murali all attacked the very casual and inadequate security that was provided to the convoy.
By God's grace the Sri Lankan team members are still alive.six to seven Sri Lankan players got injured.Injuries caused by bullet wounds,sharpnels.The rocker narrowly missed the bus,some reports suggested.
Now coming to the matter I want to write here,just read below an unbelievable piece of information..
Noted columnist Jawed Naqvi writing for the Dawn wished the Sri Lankans hadn't left. He wrote, "Had the Sri Lankan players not been so jolted by the vicious attack in Lahore, I would have wanted them to go and play the match to the finish for that would be the best way to lead the counter-attack on terrorism. The din of the applause would be enough to pulverise the terrorists in their lair. Abandoning the match was the easier option, but then we are used to more grievous compromises."
pakistani columnist naqvi wanted the Sri Lankan team "to go and play the match to the finish for that would be the best way to lead the counter-attack on terrorism".He also meant the terrorists would have felt defeated by the applause...!!!
Hahaha... a slap-stick comedy..??
He had the audacity to suggest that the injured,terrified,shaken Sri Lankan players should continue playing,continue playing in pakistan,which is a heaven for terrorists,who operate under state patronage.For what?The reason he gives is "to lead the counter-attack on terrorism"..!!
pakistan is an official sponsor of terror,not even pakistan's "all-weather-friend" china would disagree.
If the pakistani state starts stopping the support to terrorists,destroys the high-level and high-tech terror infrastructure in pakistan,that will be the first step to counter terrorism.
The Sril Lankan team and the Sri Lankan government won't be sooo foolish a second time to think like Mr.naqvi.The Lankan authorities already had made the first big foolish mistake of playing in pakistan,especially after the Indian team cancelled it's tour schedule.
Also read below a news report that came in rediff.
Shakil, the younger brother of Pakistani driver Mehar Mohammed Khalil praised for his quick thinking that saved Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore's terror attack, was a "jihadi" killed by Indian security forces in Kashmir in anti-militancy operation in 1995, a news report has said. "In 1995 his younger brother, Shakil, was killed fighting for a jihadist militant group in Indian-administered Kashmir," The Times newspaper reported.
According to the report, Khalil welcomed his well wishers in the backdrop of "a photograph of his dead brother, with a Kalashnikov rifle over his shoulder, a camouflage cap on his head and a radio in one hand". Printed in Urdu across the photograph were the words 'Mujahid martyred in Kashmir. Died in Udampur, India, 25 August 1995. Codename Abdullah.' the report said.
As he spoke, a relative whisked away the photograph of his dead brother. "He is also a supporter of Jamaat-e-Islami", the Islamist political party "that wants to impose Sharia across Pakistan and to use the army to kick India out of Kashmir", the British daily said. But like most Pakistanis, Khalil was also unwilling to consider the possibility that the attackers were home-grown. "Their complexions were Indian-type," he said. "They were definitely not Pakistani. Foreign forces are involved in this," he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Pakistan Interior ministry chief Rehman Malik had ruled out the involvement of India or the Tamil Tigers in the Lahore incident. He said al-Qaeda could have been involved in the attack. According to a Pakistani media report, the preliminary investigations into the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team have suggested that Lashkar-e-Tayiba activists, who went underground after a crackdown on the group last year, could have carried out the assault.
The initial probe suggested that a group of "headstrong" LeT activists, who went underground and hid in the garrison city of Rawalpindi after the crackdown on the terrorist group and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah, had acted on its own and carried out the attack, the Dawn newspaper quoted its sources as saying.
The driver of the Sri Lankan cricket team bus was a fellow who is very proud of his brother who was a terrorist killed in India...!!!
There is nothing more one needs to say about the state of affairs in pakistan....
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