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^ last para in the link
First Nasim unceremoniously sacks Mushtaq saying the post is n't needed hours before the team's departure for India to play in CT and now he does a complete u-turn by reappointing Mushtaq Ahmad as assistant-coach for SA tour. What a joker?
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^ 
whata joker this Nasim guy is.
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seems like another free ride on PCB's expenses and a freebie from old buddy Inzi.......................'chote zara garam chai aur do samose to ley aa, jaldi kareen'
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Nasim said former Test spinner Mushtaq Ahmad would accompany the team during the South African tour as assistant coach. Nasim, who had sacked Mushtaq from the same post hours before the team’s departure to India for the ICC Champions Trophy, said he had understood the capabilities of the former bowler who could serve the team.
Back in October, Mushtaq's 20 year cricket experience didn't impress Naseemo and Mushtaq was an irrelevant staff. Something happened in 3 months and Naseemo now understands his capabilities.
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I think the decision to not pick Shoaib Akhtar for the SA squad might have something to do with WADA. It's possible that the substance might not have fully washed off his body, or that during the ban (before it was overturned) he may have resorted to use the same substances to help him in recovery. So in case of a re-test at WADA's behest, he would've returned positive and faced ban. PCB might've pre-empted this by not including him in the SA squad.
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Court to rule on Shoaib and Asif within four months
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Thursday it was likely to rule on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal against the lifting of bans on Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif within four months. “In accordance with the code of sports-related arbitration, the Arbitral Panel to be appointed will issue directions regarding the arbitration procedure in due course,” the court said in a statement.
“As a general rule, the CAS delivers its decisions within four months from the filing of the appeal,” the statement issued from Lausanne, Switzerland said. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) last month filed an appeal with the court against a decision by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Anti-Doping Appeals Committee. “In the decision against which the appeal has been filed, the PCB Anti-Doping Appeals Committee set aside a previous decision … in which one-year and two-year periods of ineligibility were imposed on Mr. Mohammad Asif and Mr. Shoaib Akhtar respectively,” the court’s statement said.
“The periods of ineligibility were imposed for anti-doping rule infractions, following the detection of a metabolite of nandrolone in the urine samples of both cricketers,” the statement added. If the court sticks to the four-month timeframe then both Akhtar and Asif could play in the World Cup to be held in the West Indies in March-April this year, providing bans are not reimposed.
Akhtar and Asif tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone in tests conducted in September and were pulled out of Pakistan’s team touring India in October. The PCB tribunal conducted an inquiry and found both players guilty of using banned substances. The players accepted the results of the tests and turned down an offer to have their B samples tested. Subsequently the tribunal banned the two players, a decision hailed by WADA and the International Cricket Council (ICC).
However, both players appealed against the ban. An appellate committee headed by a retired judge last month overturned the bans on the grounds that both players did not take the substances knowingly. WADA has challenged that decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Asif is with Pakistan’s team currently touring South Africa while Akhtar was not selected for the tour.
WADA said it cannot stop the players from featuring in the international events, as playing rights are with the ICC. The PCB had played down WADA’s appeal, saying any reservations by the WADA or the ICC would not affect the players
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So they managed to stay in the game for the WC atleast. 
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I don’t know how many of you read the news, I missed it somehow. Lets hope this panel decides that CAS has no jurisdiction to arbitrate over this issue**.**
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Jurisdiction of drugs panel under scrutiny
The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has set up an independent panel to examine the jurisdiction of the court that is currently hearing the doping cases of Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar. Only if the panel finds that the court does have jurisdiction will the hearing continue.
In an attempt to preempt any findings from the panel, the ICC has said that Pakistan will be able to replace any members of their squad who fail dope tests ahead of the World Cup. A precedent was set during the 2003 event in South Africa when Shane Warne was sent home at the start of the tournament for using a diuretic.
The Shoaib and Asif cases were referred to the court, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, by WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) in December last year. WADA had expressed concern with the conclusions of an appellate committee, constituted by the PCB, which lifted bans imposed on both bowlers by an earlier tribunal after concluding that they hadn’t been educated properly about doping issues by the PCB.
But a PCB official told Cricinfo that the board had received communication from the CAS that independent panel was examining whether the court had jurisdiction to arbitrate over such a matter. "They have set up a panel with three independent arbitrators, from the US, Britain and France, which will examine whether the court has jurisdiction to act on a matter such as this.
“Only in the event that they find that ‘yes, they do have jurisdiction’, will the case continue to be heard,” the official added. The three panelists are David Rivkin (USA), Peter Leaver QC (UK) and Jan Paulsson (France), all established legal experts.
The PCB has argued this very point since WADA took notice and filed an appeal on the lifting of the bans. The matter, they assert, was an internal one and was closed once the appellate committee made public its findings: the dope tests and the subsequent hearings were all carried out locally and punishments or otherwise were made according to the PCB’s anti-doping code. Thus WADA and the ICC were in no position to take any further action.
But among others, Shahid Hamid, the head of the first committee which found the bowlers guilty of doping and banned them, has also argued that Pakistan are obliged to follow WADA’s code.
He told AFP last December: “It is a fact that the Pakistan government signed the Copenhagen declaration in 2003, like other 186 governments, including 38 countries in Asia,” he said. "The Pakistan government has paid to WADA the annual and subscription fee for the years 2006 and 2007.
“This declaration, through culture and sports ministries, binds us to follow the WADA codes and under clause 13 of their codes, WADA has the right of appeal against the decision of a national anti-doping commission whether it is done during the competition or out of competition.”
The official said, though, that there was no timeline on when the panel is expected to decide.
SOURCE: http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/279314.html
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Please change the title of the thread. It's not BREAKING NEWS. I read halfway through the thread thinking Akhtar and Asif would now surely be out of the World Cup, before realizing this is a six week old thread.
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It was breaking news when the thread was posted on Dec 22nd. You should have read the title after Breaking News as well. Don't you think the title would have been different if it was regarding Asif and Akhar out of the World Cup :)
Anyway I have changed the title.
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Thanks! This makes it much less shocking. The nervous systems of Pak cricket fans cannot absorb too many shocks at this point.