Political chaos in Pakistan

Democracy is finding it's foothold in Pakistan quite shaky as the Pakistan Army Chief General Kiyani has warned President Zardari to clean up the political mess in the country before march 16.This warning comes soon after Kiyani visited US  and it's quite clear that US has encouraged Kiyani to take some urgent action.Amidst wide speculation that Kiyani might follow the footsteps of Pervez Musharaf,PM Gilani has claimed that army taking over Pakistan is absolutely nil.

For a long time there has been unrest between Zardari and Nawaz Sharif over the reinstatement of Chief Justice Ifthikar Chaudhary.The constant demanding of Nawaz urged Zardari to take the step of dissolving the governement of Punjab(Pakistan) where Nawaz Sharif's brother  Shabaz Sharif is the CM.Zardari even barred the Sharif's brothers from contesting the elections.Protesting over these issues,Nawaz has called for a long march which is set to take place on March 16.Zardari has imposed section 144 (This section states that no public meetings or rallies can take place) in the place where the long march is set to occur.Zardari has even got many Nawaz's supporters arrested and even has threatned to arrest Nawaz Sharif.

Sharif on the other hand has vowed that he will bring justice to the people.The major demand of Sharif is the reinstatement of Chief Justice Ifthikar who was asked to step down during Musharaf's regime.Sharif has urged the people of Pakistan to defy the law(section 144) and take part in the rally.Nothing seems to be going right even for Imran Khan led Tehrik-e-Insaf as Zardari has issued arrest orders for Imran Khan as well.But Imran fearing the arrest is missing from his residence but is suspected to have gone hidden.This is the 2nd time Imran Khan has evaded arrest,the last time being when Musharaf had issued orders of arrest.

Well,as of now there is complete chaos in Pakistan.March 16 is all set to keep us guessing what's going to happen in this troubled country.

IPL OR ELECTION

In the coming months of April-May,two major events are coming up in India.One event is the General Elections where around 70 crore people would be excersing their right to vote.The other event is where even more than 90 crore people would be glued to their TV sets as the Indian Premier League(IPL) season 2 is set to kick off on April 9.Well,now the issue between these two events is security.Some state governments have opposed over taking place of IPL matches during election as they would not be able to provide security to both elections and IPL matches simultaneously.

The Home Minister Mr.Chidambaram had requested the IPL boss Lalit Modi to postpone the IPL after the elections citing security reasons.But Lalit Modi turned down the request saying that IPL matches would not take on election days and the final counting day.Lalit Modi is yet to announce the revised IPL schedule but he has added 3 new venues where the matches would be played.Lalit Modi also assured that the security this time around would be handled centrally unlike the last time where respective franchise were responsible for security of players and also claimed that the security budget is 10 times bigger than what it was last year.Lalit Modi refused to budge on the postponement of IPL considering the crores of money riding on IPL.BCCI could have lost upto 500 crores had the IPL been postponed.

Considering what happened in Pakistan last week,the Home Minister was correct in asking the postponement of IPL.And adding further hurdles to the security of players was the General elections which is clashing with the IPL.But if IPL doesn't take place this time round,there is no slot available till next year and i am sure India will also lose the rights of hosting 2011 World Cup on grounds of security.After so much hoopla,the Home minister now has also assured security from their side for the IPL but has asked for a revised IPL schedule.

So then is IPL more important than elections? Well,IPL is not more important than elections but we have got to prove to the world that India is not like Pakistan and India is safe.Just consider,would China have not accepted the chance of hosting the Olympics if the elections would have taken place.No,because it is pride in hosting the Olympics and China would have never let that chance go.Similarly IPL is also an issue of pride for India.But GOD forbidden,if anything goes haywire in the IPL then India is all set to become like Pakistan atleast in the cricketing arena.So it is a dicey situation,let's hope IPL and Elections both go through smoothly.  

India win maiden ODI series in Newzealand

The return of Daniel Vettori made no difference to the Newzland side as they lost the 4th ODI at Hamilton against India.Later today India missed the services of Sachin but despite that India won the match comprehensively largely because of the record-breaking century from Sehwag who scored the century in just 60 balls.

Daniel Vettori won the toss in this must win match and elected to bat.Newzland were off to a good start as Jesse Ryder and McCullum shared a 100-run partnership.But the good work of the openers was not well complemented by the middle order yet again as Newzland lost some quick wickets.But a late on-slaught by the Newzland stand-in wicketkeeper who scored a brisk 54 helped Newzland post 270 which was later revised to 281 as per the Duckwoth-Lewis(D/L) method.Hence India were set a target of 282 from 47 overs.

But this daunting 282 score was made to look small as Sehwag blasted off to the fastest century by an Indian in just 60 balls.Gambhir also scored a half-century and ably supported Sehwag as they shared an unbeaten 200 run partnership in just 22 overs.There were several rain interruptions during India's batting response but when rain came down during the 23rd over,India was declared winner as per the D/L method.

With this win,India sealed the series with the score as 3-0 with one match to be played yet.This is the first time in 41 years that India has won a ODI series in Newzland.Surely Dhoni & Co are on a dream run.Sehwag was declared as the Man of the Match for his superb knock of 125.

India go 2-0 up in the series

India defeated Newzealand by 58 runs in the 3rd odi at Christchurch to gain a 2-0 lead in the 5-match series with the 2nd odi called off due to heavy rain.Newzealand surely missed the services of their captain Daniel Vettori who missed this match as his wife is expecting their first child.Hence Bredon McCullum took over the captaincy for the first time and put India to bat first after winning the toss.He would have regreted this decision later as India went to score 392 in their 50 overs.

India for the first time in the series lost Sehwag quite early for just 3 runs.Gambhir who came next also couldn't contribute much and departed quite early.Then Sachin and Yuvraj put up a wonderful partnership to take India past 200 in the 31st over.Both ammased 69 runs in the batting powerplay which really hurt Newzealand.Yuvraj then fell after making 87 runs but Sachin continued and went on to make his 43rd odi century.With useful contributions from Dhoni and Raina,India scored 392 runs in their alloted 50 overs.

Newzealand gave a tough fight by scoring 166 runs in only 22 overs and looked like taking the game away from India.But then McCullum got out when he was on 78 and then all remaining players failed to make any contribution and apart from Jesse Ryder who scored his maiden odi century there was no positive batting from any batsman.Kyle Mills then provided some joy for Newzealand spectators by scoring a quickfire 54 but that was not enough to overhaul the indian total 392.For India Zaheer khan,Yuvraj and Harbhajan Singh picked up 2 wickets each.

Sachin Tendulkar was declared Man of the match for his smashing 163 off 133 balls which included 16 fours and 5 sixes.It would be interesting to see whether Sachin and Vettori will be available for the next game.

AIM OF TERRORISTS

My only question at this moment is what do these terrosrists want from this world ? Here are some options:-

1)DO they want thousands of people dead ?
2)Do they want money ?
3)Do they want to rule Pakistan or the whole world ?

Well the answer to all the above questions is same that is NO.All these terorists want is just FAME and POWER.

Well consider the 9/11 attack on twin towers,they just wanted to prove to the world that they can attack even the super power.If that was not enough,consider the series of bombings they carried out in India.Even the last 26/11 attack on Mumbai by a group of terorists was just to prove that they can attack even the financial capital of a country.All these attacks have been carried out with the sole aim of just getting the attention of the entire world towards them and display their power and guts in doing such heinous attacks.

All these terrorists mostly from Afganistan,Pakistan etc. even don't mind in killing their own people.Consider the assassination of Benazir Bhutto at the heart of the Pakistan country.And now the latest attack on the Srilankan cricket team where 8 policemen were killed just shows that terrorists will not spare anything.Even the numerous suicide bombings that have taken place in and around Pakistan in which thousands of Pakistan's have died goes on to show that Terrorism has no religion.The recent attack on cricket players also shows that the terrorists want maximum fame as cricket is a religion in Asian countries and some parts of the world.

All in all these terrorists just want to set the following statement in the minds of people

" WE CAN ATTACK ANYWHERE,ANYTIME "

Terrorist Attack Srilankan Cricket Team

Terror has striked in Pakistan again,this time unusally on the Srilankan Cricket team which there is to play a 2-test match series.What was to be the 2nd day of the 2nd test match in Gadaffi Stadium,Lahore turned out to be quite a death knell for some of the Srilankan players.But luckily none of the Srilankan players got killed barring some who were seriously injured.But the terrorists killed around 8 Pakistan policemen.

The Pakistan Govt and media were quick to blame that the incident wouldn't have taken place without a foreign hand.And this 'foreign hand' is widely speculated by the Pakistan media as India or LTTE(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam).Mr. Zardari,President of Pakistan claimed that the perpetrators had carried out this attack to carnage the image of Pakistan(which is already quite bad).The Srilankan team was immediately evacuated from Pakistan and have flown back to Srilanka.

The incident happened when the Srilankan team were bound towards the Gadaffi stadium in a bus when all of a sudden a dozen men armed with guns and rocket launchers started firing at the bus killing 8 policemen and injuring several players.The alert bus driver just raced off from the place towards the stadium.All the terrorists had fled the pace and vanished in the crowd.It has also been speculated that LET(Laskhar-e-toiba) might have planned this attack as they wanted the release of Lakvi(LET operative) who had been arrested a few weeks back for allegedly planning the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.Some Srilankan players even claimed that such an attack was not possible without the help of an insider.

This incident has really shocked all the cricketing fraternity about how could terrorists attack sportsmen.Such an incident last occured in 1972 Munich Olympic games where 11 Israel players were gunned down by Palestians.After this Pakistan debacle,the chances of Pakistan hosting World Cup 2011 are almost nil nad even no foreign team would be touring Pakistan in the forseeable future.A hint of this fact is when Newzealand immediately called off their planned Pak tour later this year around November.

WELL IS THIS THE END OF PAKISTAN CRICKET ? ? ?