the bloody pitch.

They jumped out of nowhere and attacked. Shot a round of bullets aiming at their fear.

All the Srilankan team wanted was to play a day of good test cricket. They had their strategy planned for the match. They would put up a good fight, try to score a couple of hundreds, take a few wickets. What they did not plan was to be ambushed by a bunch of lunatics out to isolate Pakistan from the world in the most inhumane way possible. Srilanka decided to pull their team out of Pakistan as soon as possible. Six of their players have been injured, one of them shot in the chest. I just could not read the news any further. These players know nothing except playing their game. All they did was do what they knew best, play international cricket. And yet they were attacked, shot at and put in danger at gunpoint. All because a few people thought it would be the best way to grab the limelight. 

Pakistan is slowly being isolated from the world. And somehow they don't seem to really care. They act obnoxious about every thing they are blamed for. They appeared to be well-trained terrorists. They came on rickshaws. They were armed with rockets, hand grenades, kalashnikovs. It wasn't us, these are terrorist organizations acting within the country! Well stop the carnage then. It's your country, made up of your people, whom you have the responsibility of raising and disciplining. If a child strays wrong the first thing people do is point fingers at their parents. But what happens when people start acting out, threatening innocent lives, causing mayhem, corrupting young minds! Do we blame the government, or the individual's parents, the society or the heads of the religious sects (whom we supposedly should to turn to for some sorta light or path or direction or alleged pedophiles) ? Something somewhere just does not seem right.

I'd like to believe in the good of mankind. That somewhere in Pakistan a little girl prays everyday for all this carnage to stop. That a mom actually wants her kid to just go to school and learn the capitals of the world today. That people across the border are as affected by these terrorist activities as everyone else is. A whole country is looked down upon because of the acts of their people. But then again a country is made up of their people.

All they wanted to do was play cricket.