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The staging of World Cup in sub continent would not be a better choice.

Mumbai attacks and early calling off the Indian Cricket League matches and the then tour of England were the most wisely taken decisions. Security of the foreign players would always be of extreme importance. The recent attack on Sri Lankan players is also an eye opening incident for many teams who were expressing their reservations on touring the Sub-Continent.

The change of venue of ICC Champions Trophy was very much necessary as the whole Sub-Continent is at the tip of a volcano. The losing of war by Tamil Tigers, the beating of Talibans and Terrorist forces in Pakistani Northern Areas, rising insurgency by many forces inside India like Ram Sena, ULFA, Naxalites etc and Mutiny in Bangladeshi Army are the events and the facts which are growing the deadly threats for the international sportsmen who are willing to play in this region.

Before advocating the staging of sports event in the countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, we must understand that the level of security forces and their expertise can be termed as out of comparison to that of handful of terrorists who can easily complete their mission successfully besides heavy security measures. Mumbai or Lahore, the terrorist inflicted heavy casualties and were extremely efficient as compared to the forces fought with them. Had the terrorists succeeded in taking Sri Lankan players as hostage, situation would have been more than worst. Mumbai was a standoff situation and the terrorists were surrounded and they had to bear the casualty. But the question arises, what if they will overcome their mistakes in their next attempt and would be able to nab any participating international player of the Indian Premier League (IPL)?

Besides all the assurances, one must understand that security agencies, police and paramilitary forces in India displayed their extreme helplessness during the Mumbai attacks. Their capabilities are not seriously enhanced after such a painful experience and frankly there is no change till today in their approach to handle the terrorism’s threat. Terrorists may have well evaluated and understood that Indian forces are not at all capable to defend any severe assault if happens this time at the time of IPL. The venues are scattered and great number of players would be traveling under heavy security promised by IPL management. But, can we expect that the security personnel have been trained amply or would be even more agile??? Pakistan also made similar promises and assurances but the result is visible. To know about the capability of Indian Police and Paramilitary, it is so easy to surf around the internet and understand the kind of training catered and weaponry used by them which undoubtedly is extremely out dated and sometimes does not even work at the time of any kind of face to face combat. The Policemen especially the low ranked are extremely low paid, living in absurd conditions beneath the poverty level. After their death in any encounter their family is not supported properly by the Government. In these circumstances it is hard to expect that any police officer would risk his life when he knows that his family will suffer helplessly in the end.

People of the Sub-Continent should understand that we can only held ourselves responsible if we risk the lives of foreign players who would come here to entertain us but God forbid leave with extremely horrible memories and bruises on their bodies.

Right now our Governments should act with close coordination and find the root cause of terrorism inside our countries and eliminate social injustice in the society. We should work hard to minimize poverty in this region and settle our mutual disputes which cause confrontation and perpetual tensions among the neighboring nations. For the betterment of the people living in the sub continent it is necessary that we should work harder than before and eliminate all the threats which have made even the sports, unsafe in this region.

I personally feel that we cannot put pressure on Foreign Players to play cricket or participate in any sporting event in this region by putting their lives at risk. It is also true that the wealth of the whole world cannot buy a single extra moment of life. This is my sincere advice to all the cricketing nations that Sub-continent is presently an unsafe region to play cricket. Any decision should be taken after complete assessment of security plan and available facilities. We can only feel the pain and trauma which Sri Lankan cricketers experienced in Lahore. But putting lives of many players in danger again on extremely vulnerable event of IPL would be a mistake people would not forgive us for long.

Let us hope that we could be able to develop our security arrangements to such a level that we could successfully stage the coming World Cup Cricket event in the Sub-Continent with confidence and with peace of mind.

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