It's worse than that, there are 4 wickets down now.
I suppose it's not the Pakistani cricket team's fault that the security situation is not conducive to playing tests and hosting thousands of visitors, so I support their right to play.
But I can see your point also, it would seem a bit pointless having it in Dubai unless there is some agenda with the ICC (Dubai based, natch), trying to raise the profile of the game there.
With the amount of expat workers there (from the Indian subcontinent and England) I thought there would be more interest but I guess it's been priced out of the reach of many.
What annoys me as much is that people can't pronounce Dubai. The man on Radio 2 kees saying "Jew-bye". There's no J you plank, it's phonetically Du-bye. With a D.