pakistan

Today saw the trial of three of the world's top cricketers accused of exposing their sport to "rampant corruption" at Southwark crown court in central London. They deny charges of conspiracy to cheat and accept corrupt payments over a test match at Lords. A tabloid newspaper alleges they took bribes to bowl deliberate no bowls.

On Monday Wikileaks released a mountain of documents on the war in Afghanistan through the Guardian, the New York Times and German weekly Der Spiegel.

The picture painted is chaotic: failed attempts to win the 'hearts and minds' of the Afghan people, numerous incidences of civilian casualties and evidence that both Iran and Pakistan are helping the Taliban.

This is an article about the taliban in Pakistan trickling into its largest city, Karachi, to take refuge from the U.S. missile strikes.

They seem to have figured out that concentrating on one large war-torn area makes them an easy target and so they have begun to spread themselves around the country.

It seems my city is no longer the haven it used to be.

Not for me anyway.

The Taliban seem to think otherwise.

In the last four days, in Afganistan and Pakistan, there have been roughly 152 deaths. That is 38 people a day. 38 people a day, have their families left all alone; have their heads blown off; have their organs destroyed by 'dum-dum' AK bullets; have their dreams destroyed. 

8 in Afganistan on 30th of March, 24 militants in NW Pakistan on 28th of March, atleast 50 (possibly 70) in a mosque attack in Pakistan, at least 10 in a Pakistani restaurant; and finally, possibly 40 future policemen, eradicated, in Pakistan.