Is it Imran Khan himself? I don't know. What I do know is Pakistan needs one desperately. Frankly, all I can think of right now is how Imran Khan was always the one who delivered for the Pakistani fans (and for the true fans of the game of cricket) in the game of cricket. And he delivered it in style. Well, I don't know about you, but we sure could use someone like him who would do the same for Pakistani politics.

As for the effect of Benazir Bhutto's assassination today and its impact on US Presidential Elections, I have four words for all those who suddenly think, thanks in no part to the bozo pundits on Cable television, that Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Rudy Guiliani is really the best way to react to this news of terrorist attack - "Here we go again". I am so disappointed in you all.

I don't claim to understand Pakistan or Pakistani sentiments. But I never liked General Pervez Musharraf. Never. I may not agree or understand the sentiments expressed by the singer and songwriter in this video. But I will say this - I think it's time decent Pakistanis took their country back from the demons living within them. I may not have rooted for their cricket team during India/Pakistan Cricket games when I was a kid (or even today), but I am rooting for them now - In this deadly game being played out within Pakistan, I sure hope the average decent Pakistani wins...every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

No wonder Starbucks postponed its plans of entering India

As a teenager (if not even before that), there was not a day that would go by when I would not hear stories of terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), India, a state over which India and Pakistan has already fought more wars than I would like to count. Locals were targeted, mostly Hindus. India maintained it was a proxy war that Pakistan was waging via these Islamic fundamentalists who were being trained by the ISI in Pakistan. Pakistan denied it at every level, including at UN, with much success. United States had plenty of evidence to press on Pakistan to discourage breeding of terrorists on its soil, but it chose to stay neutral (read, it did nothing). This was in the 1980s and 1990s, way before 9/11. This was way before the people of this country and the Western world even knew (much less cared) about the wrath of terrorism, except perhaps in the context of Israel.

Well, as I read more and more incidents of terrorism and violence directed at innocent Pakistanis, I cannot help but be reminded of the saying - "What goes around, comes around"

Someone needs to go into NW Frontier Province of Pakistan and settle this once and for all.

No surprises here.

Here's the English translation of India's National Anthem that's part of the video: