Srilankan cricket team attacked

Today Srilankan cricket team was attacked in city of Lahore on March 3, 2009. Team was on board a bus from their hotel to the match venue located at Qaddaffi Stadium.

There are reports that twelve attackers were involved in this incident. They wevre well armed and have enough ammunition at their disposal. The initial analysis shows that resemblance of these Lahore attackers is with the ones who attacked Taj Hotel in Mumbai. Circumstantial evidence also suggests that Indian involvement is inevitable. India has adverse relations with Srilankan Government. Indian Government and army are ardent supporters of LTTE in Srilanka who want a separate homeland for Tamils.

India has also successfully embarrassed Pakistan at a time when we are involved in internal political turmoil in Pakistan. The ammunition recovered in Lahore from the crime scene show as these are manufactured in India.

This attacked occurred from three sides of the circular road and attackers exhibited professional training. Driver of the bus was brave to drive away the team straight to stadium. This helped save the team and there were no causalities in the team except a few injuries to some team members. There is a report of 6 police men being killed in this incident and two civilian as well.

The Government in Punjab is under Governor’s rule as and there is turmoil in the province. All responsible government functionaries are involved in horse trading of assembly members in Punjab to create artificial majority for the ruling PPP. It must be noted that PPP is in minority in Punjab so have imposed Governor rule there just to gain ground in this largest province.

Cricket is the major entertainment in Pakistan. People from all walks of life support the game and cricketers have a great deal of respect in the country. Stadiums are always full and people enjoy with great enthusiasm.

It is also suggested by majority of the people in Pakistan that it should come out of this insane war on terror. It is not our war so we should not kill our own people on the behest of America.

There are also rumors that intelligence officials have warned the Governor Punjab in Lahore for such an attack. Ironically, Governor Taseer is involved in horse trading of political figures and posting transfers of the government functionaries. Besides, all top police officials and are involved in destrying lawyers movement.

In summary, it’s a failure of Zardari and his Governor in Punjab along with Interior Ministry. Will all these accept their moral responsibility and step down of their offices.