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nothing is proven yet... wtf is ur problem? get ur hindian ass out of here.
is more proof really required? all sensible pakistanis dont think so either.
you are just clutching to straws trying to feel better abt the situation. come on! stop defending the fools who stabbed you in the back !! we as cricket fans were all cheated.
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Akmal should be the first one to be suspended.
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This is doing the rounds in my neck of the woods.
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Again, the same question that I have posted before, why she didnt brought all this before to the media? what she was waiting for? If she was that much sincere with the nation or pakistan, she must have brought it to the media the moment she got aware of all that she is mentioning today to be in the news …
She is the one who never miss any chance to say against Asif, let me ask her one question … Agar Asif ne shadi kar li hoti Veena Malik se tau kya yeh aaj bataati ? Never ever !
Im not taking any side here for Asif as he was involved earlier in a drug case here at UAE as well, but the only thing is that one cannot blindly trust on what she is telling …
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Again, the same question that I have posted before, why she didnt brought all this before to the media? what she was waiting for? If she was that much sincere with the nation or pakistan, she must have brought it to the media the moment she got aware of all that she is mentioning today to be in the news ...
She is the one who never miss any chance to say against Asif, let me ask her one question ... Agar Asif ne shadi kar li hoti Veena Malik se tau kya yeh aaj bataati ? Never ever !
Im not taking any side here for Asif as he was involved earlier in a drug case here at UAE as well, but the only thing is that one cannot blindly trust on what she is telling ...
To her defense, she provided info the PCB hoping they will take action but they didn't. Now that everything is out in the media she decided to join'em.
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I am seeing Geo, no news of the three suspended.
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The International Cricket Council has promised to take “prompt and decisive action” against any Pakistan player found guilty of fixing or manipulating matches.
The ICC said Monday that its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit is investigating newspaper allegations that fixing is endemic in Pakistan matches up to and including its current tour of England.
“The integrity of the game is of paramount importance,” ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said. "Prompt and decisive action will be taken against those who seek to harm it.
“However, the facts must first be established through a thorough investigation and it is important to respect the right of due process when addressing serious allegations of this sort.”
Pakistan cricket is in crisis after British police started investigating allegations by a British tabloid that two of its players deliberately bowled no-balls against England last week in exchange for money.
Individuals in illegal betting hubs allegedly have that information passed on to them so they can bet on a sure thing.
There is no suggestion that the players’ actions affected the scale of Pakistan’s defeat — its heaviest in 58 years of test cricket — any player found guilty of colluding with bookmakers to manipulate the result could be banned for life.
Pakistan lost the series 3-1 after going down by an innings and 225 runs on Sunday.
“The International Cricket Council, England and Wales Cricket Board and Pakistan Cricket Board are committed to a zero-tolerance approach to corruption in cricket,” Lorgat said. “All allegations of betting irregularities or fixing of matches or incidents within matches are investigated thoroughly.”
The sting operation by an undercover newspaper reporter has also led to a rekindling of suspicion that the result of Pakistan’s defeat to Australia in Sydney in January was fixed.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the country’s highest law enforcement agency had sent a three-man delegation to London.
“Scotland Yard is doing its own investigations,” Malik said. “Our team is there to assist them and also independently find out what has happened.”
The Pakistan squad left London on Monday and traveled to Taunton in southwest England, where they are scheduled to play county side Somerset on Thursday.
The team appears set to fulfill its remaining fixtures of two Twenty20 matches and five one-day internationals, but Javed Miandad — Pakistan’s greatest ever batsman — said the tour should only continue with new players and team management.
“It would be tough for them to handle the pressure,” Miandad said.
Now director general of the PCB, Miandad said he would be willing to coach the new team.
With the first Twenty20 match scheduled for Sunday, thousands of tickets have been sold and the remainder were still on sale Monday through English county club websites.
Team manager Yawar Saeed said that Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and captain Salman Butt had their mobile phones confiscated by police, who also searched hotel rooms and questioned players late Saturday as part of an investigation also involving the ICC’s ACSU.
The allegations first came to light when Sunday’s edition of the News of the World published a story and video from an undercover report that alleged that Asif and Amir were paid to deliberately bowl no-balls during Thursday’s opening day of the fourth test.
The News of the World tabloid said it secretly filmed its undercover reporters, posing as front men for a Far East gambling cartel, in discussion with a man it identifies as London-based businessman Mazhar Majeed, who appears to accept 150,000 pounds ($232,000) in order to make sure no-balls are bowled at certain times.
The newspaper said it passed all its evidence to the police.
Majeed was subsequently arrested by police late Saturday, but was bailed without charge on Sunday. The bail obliges him to appear before police at a future date.
The PCB has requested to access to the investigation by Scotland Yard and said in a statement that it will make no further official comment on the case while police investigations continue.
“As the match is now subject to a police investigation, neither the ICC, ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), PCB nor the ground authority, the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), will make any further comment until the completion of investigation.”
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradari has asked the PCB for a preliminary report into the allegations, while Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani said the scandal “has hurt us.”
“Our heads are bowed in shame and I have asked the sports minister to inquire about it,” Gillani said.
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Former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said he thinks a ban from cricket for the Pakistan team may be in order.**
Speed, an Australian who headed the ICC from 2001-2008, says he is concerned by what “looks a fairly compelling case” of rigged betting.
“I think that’s (suspension) an option. It’s serious,” Speed told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
Pakistan parliamentarian Iqbal Mohammad Ali, who also heads the lower house’s standing committee on sports, called for the players in question to be fired from the team ahead of the upcoming limited-overs games against England.
“Whosoever is involved should be banned for life,” he said. “All those who are suspected should be sent back home.”
Source: ARY News - Latest Pakistan News, World News, Business and Sports
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nothing is proven yet... wtf is ur problem? get ur hindian ass out of here.
Relax man, he does have a point (albeit communicated a little strongly).
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If I were to be brutally honest, I will have to say that I am being throroughly entertained by this latest instalment of a long running soap opera that is Pakistani cricket. No, I am not gloating as you might expect an Indian to. It is just pure, unalloyed pleasure.
It takes me away from the drudgery that is my daily life. I can't wait to find out what happens next....who will be banned and subsequently unbanned, who will retire and subsequently unretire....who will pull down whose *chaddi *in public...
I suspect that many of you guys - behind this facade of outrage - are also secretly enjoying all of this. You want these players to be pronounced guilty don't you, just like the media hounds you want a good story...a climax......does not matter whether you are Pakistani or not....we all like to watch car wrecks. All these platitudes about the urgency to prevent the great game of cricket from being tainted etc.....nothing but a load of bull if you ask me.
Thank you Pakistan cricket...you give my life a semblance of purpose.
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** Former ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said he thinks a ban from cricket for the Pakistan team may be in order.**
Malcom is an idiot!
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^ Why so ? Just asking because I may have missed the memo.
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If I were to be brutally honest, I will have to say that I am being throroughly entertained by this latest instalment of a long running soap opera that is Pakistani cricket. No, I am not gloating as you might expect an Indian to. It is just pure, unalloyed pleasure.
It takes me away from the drudgery that is my daily life. I can't wait to find out what happens next....who will be banned and subsequently unbanned, who will retire and subsequently unretire....who will pull down whose *chaddi *in public...
I suspect that many of you guys - behind this facade of outrage - are also secretly enjoying all of this. You want these players to be pronounced guilty don't you, just like the media hounds you want a good story...a climax......does not matter whether you are Pakistani or not....we all like to watch car wrecks. All these platitudes about the urgency to prevent the great game of cricket from being tainted etc.....nothing but a load of bull if you ask me.
Thank you Pakistan cricket...you give my life a semblance of purpose.
Well some1….bhot zalam insaan ho tum….but I am the first one to admit….it is *in entertaining!…..and deep down there, i do want this drama to continue…..country’s credibility, nationalism, all that bul* drowned when akram and salim malik sold us 15 years ago….now it is all fun….unfortunately, I work in M&A role and most of my time is spent in the office….now that this drama is in its full swing, I have something to look forward to while I am running endless versions of my freakin model trying to come up with higher IRR using fake scenarios!…as soon as I finish my presentation and email it to my boss, I click on cricinfo with my heart beat out of control… ……….i have endless thoughts in my mind…. no idea what will be the next headline ….may be shoaib malik is behind bars now! …..or may be molana yousaf is also part of the gang!!! Or imran farhat has been appointed the next skipper…or asif molested a teenager girl…blah blah….anything is possible…..jeo Pakistani cricket team…kind of sad but have you ever heard a coach dying right during the world cup in any sports?…lol…hum nay to wo bee kar diya..only god knows what bob wolmer saw that he had an heart attack..lol….
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some1, were you thrilled on Ajmal Kasab saga also
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although i dont share the excitement som1 or phoenix have... its not the same thing as terrorists killing innocent people...
im quite angered as a cricket fan that these things are still happening and apparently so easily... and very disappointed that an amazing young talent like aamer has already been corrupted..
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^ PD....You know exactly what I am talking about. I am getting my fill the same way exactly.
There is so much to look forward to every time I am online. Even this place (GS) has come back roaring to life.
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some1, were you thrilled on Ajmal Kasab saga also
What ? Did the no-balls kill/maim 200+ innocent people ?
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Thats what memo said 
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It was roaring back to life when we won against Australia too, you were MIA 
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I am always around lurking…just that after 11 Years on GS I have become somewhat emotionally fatigued…don’t go on a posting spree after every event. You youngsters have too much stamina 
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^ Wow, off-topic but 1999 
And did anyone see Veena Malik’s live video call session on ARY News? 
I don’t completely disagree with what she said, but whoa.. was she getting all hyper or what?! Asif is still a pretty sensitive topic for her I guess 