Yesterday the chaos which is Pakistan came home to the world sport community in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team while in Lahore.  The attack which have been compared to the Mumbai attacks in style and composition demonstrate once again the regional complexities of the violence that has engulfed Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Pakistan continues to spin into a chaotic abyss and is determined to take the region with it.  The long standing speculation that Afghanistan is a center of instability and is affecting Pakistan is quickly shifting to Pakistan being the epicenter of instability and is affecting Afghanistan and other neighbors.  As was reported today in the Financial Times the Punjab is and always has been a source for recruitment in militant causes but this is different.  This attack was not the statement of an independent Punjab or even a statement on Kashmir but rather it was simply an attack on that which is foreign and in some minds undesirable in influence and presence.  The violence in Pakistan is not a direct result of the madrases or the beaming of Al Jazeera's signal into homes but the neglect of years by successive governments who believed they could mitigate and manage terror without it ever coming home to roost.  It is the classic example of feeding the crocodile hoping you would be the last one eaten.  The direct support if the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI) of terror groups operating in Afghanistan and elsewhere has now boomeranged in several instances over the past year and will most likely continue.  Pakistan has been playing with fire for far too long, and now the rest of the region if not the world will get burned.