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...Lahore on March 3, firing assault rifles and rockets at the team's bus and police escort. Eight people were killed, including six police officers (one of whom is shown above), and six cricket players were injured. The attack, which recalled November's rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai, underscored continuing security problems in Pakistan and threw its status as co-host of the 2011 Cricket World Cup into doubt. Several suspects have been detained...
...popular ditty every time the game is brought up: "I don't like cricket; I love it," she chants (after the 1978 10cc number "Dreadlock Holiday"). When I interviewed one of the founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near Lahore, I was greeted with the timeless scene of young men bowling and batting through the mist rising off a well-tended pitch. They were bearded and wore...
...Pakistan is already an international cricket pariah - Australia, England and New Zealand pulled out of matches in 2008, citing security concerns. When India, too, boycotted the early March test match following the Mumbai attacks, Sri Lanka graciously stepped in to save international cricket in Pakistan. No longer. Pakistan had been picked as a co-host for the upcoming World Cup, but immediately following the Lahore attack International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat told reporters in London, "It's difficult to see international cricket being played in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. It will be very challenging...
...terror attacks go in Pakistan, the damage was relatively minor. The 12 terrorists, divided into teams of two, were well-trained and armed with grenades, rocket launchers and automatic weapons. Like the Mumbai attackers, they carried backpacks filled with extra ammunition and explosives. But where the comparison doesn't work in scale and numbers - 165 died in the Mumbai attacks - the damage to the national psyche may be similar...
...Mumbai has always been the heartbeat of India. An attack on that city is an assault not just on a financial capital but on a national cultural identity seen through the prism of Bollywood movies and on a pluralistic ideal embodied in its diverse masses. Pakistan has no such geographic center. Its cities are defined by their ethnic makeup and their provincial politics. So an attack on one location rarely resonates beyond regional boundaries. But an attack on cricket is a body blow that will not so easily be shrugged off. Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket star turned politician, scoffed...