The March 03, 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team by a dozenunidentified gunmen in Lahore brings home starkly the reality about anincreasingly unstable Pakistan in particular and South Asia in general. To manyof the bystanders and terrified Pakistani civilians in Lahore’s busy LibertySquare, it was India’s Mumbai attacks acted out once over again. The CCTVimages of the gunmen in Lahore were chillingly similar to the 10 gunmen involvedin the Mumbai attacks; the terrorists in Lahore like those in Mumbai, werecasually dressed in jeans and jackets, carried haversacks, and calmly shot attheir targets. What is most worrisome is the fact that in both cases, themilitants executed "commando type" operations, in which they engaged thesecurity forces in direct combat. Usually, terrorists are known to carry outspectacular acts of faceless violence through bomb blasts aimed at high civiliancasualties and political impact.