Were Pakistani Players Set up in Match Fixing Scandal?

31
Aug

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It's true that Pakistani players do have a repo of bringing shame to the green but on a closer look and considering the magnitude of the negative coverage received, is the incident another deliberate setup to racially malign and target the Pakistani nation further? The classical "from the book" statement that the bookie gave [Pakistani cricketers only want women, food and money] may hint so. After all, aren't Indian and Aussies and Brits doing the same? Pakistani cricketers aren't the only ones here but get most attention everytime, why? More so, there is an Indian culprit [Dheeraj Dixit] involved too about whom the same media hasn't found the same zeal to talk about. So if Pakistani players want money and food, was he up to it considering it his religious duty? Pakistani players are indeed shameful but may have been set up too this time. Pakistan Observer has some findings here.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=49612

Cricket scandal part of psy-ops against PakistanThe latest allegation of match-fixing against Pakistani cricket team is said to be part of a greater psy-ops against Pakistan in which Indian intelligence and a Western secret service men jointly staged a drama to de-moralize the Pakistani nation.

According to an investigation conducted by Pakistan Observer, the two Asian-origin men behind the conspiracy were acting on behalf of their masters with the aim to malign Pakistan and initiate a campaign to disgrace Pakistanis at home and abroad.
One Pakistani close to alleged fixer believes that the man in picture may have been persuaded to act for a film or drama by the News of the World reporter. Otherwise no one is that fool to accept such illegal money in cash and spread it over to be filmed.

The British daily The News of the World reporters known for their disguised personalities and fake identities managed to convince a multi-millionaire Pakistani married to an Indian lady to play the drama to implicate the Pakistani cricket players.

The News of the World claimed their reporters had posed as front men for an Asian gambling cartel, paying 10,000 pounds to the alleged fixer as an upfront deposit.

The newspaper showed the alleged fixer, Mazhar Majeed, with piles of cash on a table who apparently allowed the Newspaper reporter to film him with the money. Senior investigative reporters are now questioning the way Mazhar Majeed spread the money in cash on a table and did not object to film the conversation and the deal.

Pakistani community from London have reported that Mazhar is a 35-year-old property tycoon, who also owns Croydon Athletic Football Club and a multi-million pound property business in England. He lives in a 1.8 million home in Croydon, with his Indian wife and two daughters. Sports officials in London also claimed Pakistan team members had been warned time and again not to get in touch with Mazhar Majeed who had been picked up by an Indian intelligence agency to implicate Pakistan team.

However, another Asian-British personality who apparently played the lead role to distort the image of Pakistan and promote psy-ops to demoralize Pakistanis is the reporter of The News of the World newspaper. Pakistani community speaks of long history of The News of the World reporter, Mazher Mahmood who really planned the scandal.

Mazher Mahmood is an undercover reporter for the British tabloid newspaper News of the World. He often poses as a Sheikh in order to gain his target’s trust, and is also known as the “Fake Sheikh.” In September 2008, he wrote a book titled Confessions of a Fake Sheikh – The King Of The Sting Reveals All published by Harper Collins.

Little can be confirmed of Mahmood’s background, the majority of which he has provided himself. In his 2008 book, he claimed to have been born in the Midlands as the son of an immigrant Pakistani journalists who settled in the UK in the 1960s. But that claim was never confirmed by any of his friends.

Mahmood’s late father, Sultan Mahmood had developed close links with the Indian community leaders who financed him to start a an Urdu newspaper from UK. He got his first job as a journalist aged 18, and began his career with exposing his own family friends who had objected his close links with the Indians.

In 1984, he first used the “Fake Sheikh” disguise to entice prostitutes to a hotel room and tried to embarrass the Arab community in England. In 1989 he joined The Sunday Times but after some time the Newspaper’s managing editor dismissed for an attempted cover-up of an error he had made. Mahmood works secretively, rarely going into the media offices. During his investigations, as well as the “Fake Sheikh,” Mahmood used several fake identities. He is often accompanied by a bodyguard, said to be his second cousin Mahmood Qureshi, who also use fake names and identity as businessman Pervaiz Khan.

The News of the World pays him a yearly salary of £120,000, plus an editorial and technical support budget which includes a dedicated technical support crew, his two bodyguards, and essential props, including: luxury hotel suites; private jets; limousines; and fees paid to informants. In September 2004 he posed as a Muslim extremist to “expose” three men who were trying to buy radioactive material for a suspected Muslim terrorist group seeking to carry out attacks in the United Kingdom. The men were later found not guilty following a trial at the Old Bailey, with the judge criticizing the News of the World for not checking the credibility of the story before printing.

In 2004, Mahmood again led an investigation into exposing the creation of a “dirty bomb,” through the supply of the fictitious substance red mercury to three men from a supposed terrorist group. Mahmood was registered as an informant for the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch during the story, which lead to a criminal case prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service. The case, signed off by the Attorney General, collapsed in July 2006.

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