re: Zulqarnain Haider goes missing/ announces retirement/returns back - drama continues
so eshan bhai, you are essentially assuming that every new guy who walks into the pakistani “gang” should be able to deal with life threats (to him and to his family) in a calm and cool manner?..so a new player is excited to play for Pakistan, starts his new future with so many dreams, hits the winning stroke in a tense match and then he gets death threats to his family from criminals….he may overreact as zulqi did…
look, no doubt, zulqi reacted bizarrely thus bringing more embarrassment to himself and Pakistan but every person is different and possesses a different level of threshold when it comes to dealing with pressure…dealing with match pressure is one thing and dealing with life threats to your young daughters is a totally different thing…i have one question for you ehsan bhai…do you believe that zulqi is lying? if so, then i agree with all of your comments…if not (and we need to wait), but then we cannot blame him for what he did becaue as i said above, dealing with life threat could create panic. and people react differently…what we should blame is sad state of our cricket where players have to deal with life threats…
so far, zulqi has maintained that criminals threatened to kill him, his wife and his lovely young daughters in pakistan and he just got freaked out…..why would he trust pakistani board and management when all of them have shown no spine against corrupt players in the past…and who knows who is involved….and we do have a strong historical precedent ….we do know for a fact that Justice qayuum implicated 9 players meaning that the whole pakistani team was involved in match fixing….and there are a lot of indications that in last 2 years, at least 7-8 players were involved…..so how can you trust someone…and just tell me one thing…I ask all of you…do you feel comfortable going back to lahore/karachi and talking about these threats openly to media on that great land of ours?
look, here is the problem…we always take a position that favors Pakistan and I can understand why but it is aggravating the match fixing situation….when butt, aamir and aisf were implicated, everyone in Pakistan started to blame English media and declared the whole episode nothing but a cheap Indian and British conspiracy to isolate pakistani cricket….ok great…with this mindset, we are not going to get to the bottom of issues….now with zulqi issue, we have declared him a bhagora, lalachi, idiot who just wants to have British asylum…by having this attitude, we are again ignoring (and deliberately) the fact that the match fixing involvement in pakistan is way more pronounced than our imagination…
as much as I hated butt’s interview to mubashar luqman, butt made a very interesting poont…..he said and I quote “ do you guys know how many threats do we receive from criminals….if we tell about them, who will take responsibility of my family…..i live here with my wife, kid, young sisters and old parents……who will protect them”…..that says it all….that really says it all…butt is a very mature guy…he knows what to say and when…he gave a message in a hidden tone…no one talks about those threats and probably at a certan point, players start cooperating (out of fear and out of greed) and then they can never get out of that vicious cycle….
with zulqi’s episode, we can get a sense how this whole scam works…when a new players seems to cement his position for next 10-20 matches, bring him onboard because he many not be as talanted but his 10-20 runs can swing the match..so bribe him, threat him…do anything but bring him onbaord…and the gang is so strong that it does not let you play for pakistan again if you are not inline…
but when someone speaks, lets not call him a lalchi bhagora right away just because he did not conduct himself as reasonably as social norms suggest….