Re: Breaking News: No World Cup for Pakistan
Now let me say something politically incorrect but which is an obvious truth - India is NOT an ISLAMIC country with a Muslim majority. On that basis alone, foreigners would feel safer in India than in Pakistan. Whether this is right or wrong is a different subject.
Your argument holds true to a large extent but foreigners (I believe) would have no qualms about playing in countries like Malaysia, Morocco, UAE and Turkey. Morocco and Turkey are amongst the most popular tourist places for British people. Egypt (despite frequent bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh etc.) is a popular tourist destination, thanks to the pyramids. Westerners also thronged to beaches of Indonesia (before Bali happened!)
Let me go out on a limb and say that if Pakistan was not India's neighbor , IPL would never have moved to SA. Foreigners now have a reason to feel unsafe in India but only because of Pakistan based elements (state or non-state actors !!). They have nothing to fear from Shiv Sena/RSS for sure.
By the same analogy, Pakistan is a victim of terrorism because of its geopolitical position. Although this mess is partly our own created, some of the circumstances were just beyond our control. Had there been no Soviet invasion and subsequent Talibanisation of Afghanistan, had there been no lingering Kashmir dispute and problem with India, radicalisation of certain elements would never have happened in Pakistan. This heroin and kalashnikov culture esp. in NWFP is a legacy of that Soviet-Afghan war