Imran Khan, Former Pakistani Cricket Captain & Present Prime Minister of Pakistan: No, I Wouldn't Put it Past Him to Play A Significant Role in the Unfolding of Future Events Vis-a-Vis the Middle East & the West (& the End of All Things As We Know It)...

To Put One's Own National Sports-Players FIRST & FOREMOST, Giving Due Cognizance to their Mental & Emotional Well-being, Taking Due Note of SPECIFIC & CREDIBLE Threats to their Safety...IS NOT, HAS NOT BEEN, & NEVER WILL BE 'Muslim-Baiting'/'Hating' (or ANY OF THE OTHER Ridiculous Things Claimed by the Usual Suspects): It's Simply Called Taking Proper Care of One's Citizens, Especially Those Privileged & Responsible for Representing One's Nation in an Official Capacity Overseas...WHAT ELSE (or Other Choice) Would or Could ANY REASONABLE GOVERNMENT POSSIBLY MAKE If It Gave EVEN A RAT'S ARSE/BRASS RAZOO About Its Citizenry, SURELY ANY GOVERNMENT'S #1 PRIORITY AT ANY TIME...

Let such armchair critics and self-appointed 'champions' rant 'n rave all they well may...

Hey, better still, let them put their own lives on the line, in potential jeopardy...if they so wish...

But please, oh please spare us all the pious piffle and disingenuous grandstanding they so typically and predictably engage in whenever they have the gall, the temerity to criticize others (whether governmental officials or sportspeople) for employing wisdom, reason and sheer commonsense in realizing a little discretion is worth an oodle-load of foolhardy valour...

Yes, the human survival instinct is one that no-one with any real sense of reality would ever choose to deny, gainsay or belittle...

I mean, really!