Perhaps the verdict will serve as a necessary push to improve our World Cup performance.

Why are so many suicides taking place for what seem to be trivial reasons all across the country?

As a nation we are suffering from the battered wife (fan) syndrome, Pakistan cricket being our abusers.

Pakistanis have unfortunately become misfits in the global village and our opportunities to cross borders are increasingly limited.

Maybe this flood could be a much-needed reality check for us and could help us to throw away the ‘them and us’ approach. Them, who are affected, us, who are not.