Simon Taufel
Apr 20 2009, Sreelata Yellamrazu

by Trevor Chesterfield

You have feel for the average citizens of Pakistan. It is not their fault that their nation has lost the rights to hosting sixteen World Cup games in 2011.

They deserved better than this but those nightmare street scenes..

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