Drug lord key to Pakistan cricket

[Desi Cartman]

OSAMA Bin Laden has done more damage to Pakistan cricket than ball-tampering, match-fixing and forfeited-Test controversies combined. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, six tours and series hosted by Pakistan have either been cancelled or postponed, relegating the nation to cricket's backwaters a destination too dangerous for Western players. Now, the man dubbed "India's Osama", Dawood Ibrahim, threatens to destroy the remaining hope Pakistan cricket has of re-emerging by dismantling the crucial relationship between the boards of Pakistan and India. Ibrahim, a notorious gangster who reputedly funds his terrorist activities through a billion-dollar drug trade in Afghan opium, is blamed by India as the mastermind of last month's Mumbai blasts that claimed 172 lives. He is also held liable for India's worst terrorist attack, the Mumbai attack of 1993 which killed 250 people. He is associated with Pakistan cricket's director-general, Javed Miandad, through the marriage of his daughter, Mahrukh, to Junaid, son of the batting legend. India's government is demanding that Pakistan hand over Ibrahim, who is believed to have hidden himself in luxurious palaces for 15 years in the world's second-largest Muslim nation. India suggests that Pakistan is actively involved in shrouding Ibrahim and — retaliatory or not — cricket has become a pawn in the game. Once Pakistan's most powerful and important supporter, India is threatening to pull out of a tour starting later this month. "If India doesn't tour, it will be a total disaster for Pakistan cricket," said former Pakistan Cricket Board chief operating officer Shafqat Naghmi. "It's very important for cricket, not just in Pakistan but in the world, for India to come. If they don't, it would relegate Pakistan further into isolation. If India doesn't come, I can't see New Zealand coming even though their tour is at the end of next year. Australia is supposed to tour in April, but I can't see that happening."

Link Dawood = Indias Osama ... dawood & Miandad relationship Good points there

[Fontaine]

If there's any sense of moral fortitude in the BCCI then this tour needs to be sent back to hell where it belongs in Pakistan. The BCCI are probably thinking about the sheer amount of money, interest and fame this tour will generate but given how screwed up relations are right now, and that Miandad and Dawood are related then it would be disgusting if this tour went ahead. Screw Miandad and the PCB.

[cochise]

There should be NO tour of Pakistan. The Sports minister said it best.

[Desi Cartman]

non state actors my ass ... ISI is involved , army is , cricketers are .. who else is left ? do they need to be MPs to be classed as state actors

[cochise]

There is no state...it is a failed state.

[Fontaine]

LOL! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x5VQ9AjiWg]YouTube - Javed Miandad Parody in 4Man Show Part 2 of 4[/ame]

[Guest dada_rocks]

Mind you guys ex-PM BEnazir could not trust their state police for her security and kept asking for her own foreign-national-security-team which Mushy denied and we all found her fears were onot unfounded.. BLoody mushy himself escaped few assassination attempt and each time some rogue element of ISI was involved.. Ironically that rogue element chief Hamid Gul himslef doesn;t trust paki police since the moment word of his head came he started making noise that he doesn;t trust paki police and judiciary and he woudl rather like his case to be tried in international court.. These are nutjobs who themselves keep questioning the integrity of all state actors but when it comes to india we are supposed to buy what these mofos have to say baout themselves.. Heck first go and convince your presidnet to not seek the investigation from UN andscotland yard for his wife's murder.

[Anakin]

For a moment I thought this thread was about SRT

[PaiN_KiLLeR]

For a moment I thought this thread was about SRT

I thought it was about Mohammad Asif.