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ATTACK: While yesterday's terrorist attacks does not mean that
Pakistan is a failed state, writes Bronwen Maddox in The Times,
it is just a further example that the country has a failed
president. She argues that Asif Zardari has been a disastrous
replacement for his assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto. Simon
Barnes believes sport has always been the world's great soft
target and had lived a charmed life until yesterday's attack on
the Sri Lankan cricket team. While Ed Smith, a former England
batsman and now author, feels that the Lahore terrorists
targeted cricket because they see it as a symbol of western
modernity. The Guardian's Simon Tisdall believes that terrorist
attack on Sri Lanka's cricketers has underscored fears that
politically fractured, economically destitute, and militarily
challenged Pakistan, if not already a failed state, is rapidly
heading towards the pariah status of