A Shrinking World.

Someone we know recently met an aquaintance who had been in Lahore at the time of the attack by Islamic extremists on the Sri Lankan cricket team. The person concerned, who had been in that city visiting reletives, had then to spend nearly ten days in virtual hiding because of the security situation and the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan before being able to return home.

This should remind us that in an increasingly small world, What may be just another horrific news story on the evening news may well be of a much more immediate concern to those we work with, or meet on our daily rounds. It should also remind us that for many people in the world, The things that worry us would hardly register in their conciousness.

I doubt if too many people even in the wealthiest parts of Lahore would put the siting of a travellers camp at the head of a list of their priorities.