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Pakistan security is tied to its relations with India and Afghanistan, and to its on internal divisions.
I was stunned to hear that the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked!
Opposition leader: Pakistan security has collapsed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090305/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_cricketers_attacked
I was stunned to hear that the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked!
Opposition leader: Pakistan security has collapsed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090305/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_cricketers_attacked
Some people need to learn to disagree or oppose peacefully.LAHORE, Pakistan – The bloody ambush of the Sri Lankan cricket team shows that security in Pakistan has "collapsed" under the country's shaky pro-Western government, an opposition leader said Thursday, as police questioned several people detained in the hunt for the terrorists.
The country's cricket chief, meanwhile, dismissed as "totally fabricated" claims by British referee Chris Broad that police abandoned him and other officials during Tuesday's attack.
"It's unfortunate that a gentleman of such a stature is saying such a thing," said Ijaz Butt, who promised to lodge a protest with the International Cricket Council over Broad's comments. "There is not a single bit of truth in his statements," he said, adding that a police commando was wounded in the neck protecting Broad during the attack.
Six police officers and a driver were killed and seven players, an umpire and an assistant coach were hurt in the ambush in Lahore, which occurred despite government pledges to give the Sri Lankan players and match officials the same level of protection afforded a head of state in the country wracked by a virulent militancy.
"The security system in Pakistan under this regime has collapsed because this government is too busy doing other things, they are too busy in their quest for power," Mushahid Hussain, an opposition leader told a televised media conference. "They should be held responsible."
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