“Ata-ur-Rehman confessed that Wasim Akram had offered him Rs300k for match-fixing" : Khalid Mahmood

[MenInG]

“Ata-ur-Rehman confessed that Wasim Akram had offered him Rs300k for match-fixing" : Khalid Mahmood

LAHORE (92 News) – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) former chairman Khalid Mahmood said that Attaur Rehman’s match-fixing statement about Waseem Akram was true.

Talking to 92 News on Thursday, the PCB former chief said: “Attaur Rehman confessed that Wasim Akram had offered him Rs300,000 for match-fixing. He submitted an affidavit to court, but later backtracked from it.”

Khalid Mahmood said that Wasim Akram would have been banned had Attaur Rehman spoken the truth. “I had asked Attaur Rehman not to be afraid and the PCB will support him.”

He said that the three matches of the 1999 World Cup were doubtful. “There was something fishy behind the defeats of Bangladesh, India and Australia in the final. Pakistan could not lose the match against Bangladesh, but it lost,” he maintained.

The former PCB chairman said that Pakistan had not played a fair match against India in the 1999 World Cup. “Pakistan did not play a fair game against Australia in the World Cup final,” he added.

Former skipper Saleem Malik, who was punished in the match-fixing scandal, had sought an apology from the nation and demanded re-investigation of the matter.

A couple of days ago, the PCB Disciplinary Panel had banned Umar Akmal for three years in a match-fixing scandal.

https://92newshd.tv/attaur-rehmans-...akram-was-true-pcb-former-chief/#.Xqvg_ahLiHs

 

[MenInG]

Another legal suit coming?

 

[Savak]

Another legal suit coming?

If you read the Justice Qayyum report, Atta ur Rehman signed an affidavit to this effect and even testified under oath to the inquiry commission the same.

Wasim allegedly used his credit card to pay for Attas flight from England to Pakistan and Atta then retracted his statement to the commission and said that his first statement was because he was strongly influenced and pressurized by Aamir Sohail who was interested in becoming the captain. The entire case against Wasim collapsed because Atta did a U turn and the commission ruled that anything Atta says cannot be relied upon and he lied to everyone he had been in contact with ie Imran Khan, Aamir Sohail, Wasim Akram, the inquiry committee. The committee decided to put his name on the Exit Control List and impose a life ban on him for perjury.

What I find most extraordinary in this is that Wasim Akram showed his credit card statement and receipt confirming that he indeed paid for Attas flight from England to Pakistan. How did the Qayyum commission so blatantly allow a suspect to intimidate and threaten a witness so blatantly in such a manner and therefore influencing the investigation?

Atta ur Rehman is now driving a taxi in England to make ends meet and is threatening to write a book on the entire saga, why he reneged on his earlier affidavit, statement under duress, pressure from influential people and the famous legendary big players thieves who got away with it.

 

[MenInG]

Not sure why people wait for so long before they come up with allegations like this. If so concerned, move heaven and earth to make your point. Why wait until next interview for this?

 

[Hawkeye]

All masala.

Conspiracy theories.

No evidence.

 

[the Great Khan]

too late..nobody will trust atta's word again because he retracted his statement. We all knew there was something dodgy about that final..saeeds sudden desire to change his grip, the loose batting, the smiles at the end..what are you smiling for wasim sahib?

these guys knew they were good..they could beat anybody on their day..and they knew it..

yet on the biggest day of their lives, some of them let their nation down.

why do you think saeeds daughters death had such a massive impact on him? why do you think he got so into the deen? same with mushy and others..they knew they had been sucked into the fixing and regretted it. The 90's team could have ruled cricket for a decade and we could have seen real battles with the aussies. But we got inconsistent performances and betting rumours all over the place..

I still remember an anecdote about wasim. he went to a restaurant in england and gave his order while also ordering a beer. The chef heard this and shouted in his language, "ask him if he wants haraam ya halal khana" lol..

also i remember trying to get an autograph from him in 96 and he was rude and not very polite.

 

[Bullet Drive]

too late..nobody will trust atta's word again because he retracted his statement. We all knew there was something dodgy about that final..saeeds sudden desire to change his grip, the loose batting, the smiles at the end..what are you smiling for wasim sahib?

these guys knew they were good..they could beat anybody on their day..and they knew it..

yet on the biggest day of their lives, some of them let their nation down.

why do you think saeeds daughters death had such a massive impact on him? why do you think he got so into the deen? same with mushy and others..they knew they had been sucked into the fixing and regretted it. The 90's team could have ruled cricket for a decade and we could have seen real battles with the aussies. But we got inconsistent performances and betting rumours all over the place..

I still remember an anecdote about wasim. he went to a restaurant in england and gave his order while also ordering a beer. The chef heard this and shouted in his language, "ask him if he wants haraam ya halal khana" lol..

also i remember trying to get an autograph from him in 96 and he was rude and not very polite.

Wasim is the rudest.

Have seen him many times, and on each occasion he is running from fans, never giving them any time.

Rude rude man. Don't like him one bit.

 

[Bezli]

Wasim is the rudest.

Have seen him many times, and on each occasion he is running from fans, never giving them any time.

Rude rude man. Don't like him one bit.

Fame is uglier than anything.

 

[Savak]

Those saying Atta cannot make a difference with his testimony are mistaken. Chris Cairns are dissapeared from the cricketing world inspite of winning the lawsuit in England because he knows his reputation has been scortched beyond repair and there is no way anyone will ever offer him a job in Cricket again.

 

[MenInG]

LAHORE: Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Khalid Mahmood has urged the PCB not only to make public the names of those bookies who roped the Pakistani players in corrupt practices but to also send their cases to the FIA with immediate effect.

In an exclusive talk with Dawn, Khalid said he has no regrets as then chairman PCB for allowing top players like Wasim Akram, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed and others in 1997-98 to continue playing after chief executive Majid Khan had sidelined them over allegations of match-fixing.

When asked that while a good number of cricketers have been banned in match or spot fixing cases, the PCB could not yet disclose the names of the bookies involved in them, Khalid said: “Looks it takes two to quarrel, so when any player fixes a match he is not alone, obviously some match fixer is there. But while a lot of players have been punished during the last two decades, those bookies who set them up and offered hefty bribes to the players are not in the picture.”

“These cases must be handed over to FIA to take everyone responsible to the task,” Khalid said.“There is a need to work at the root causes to grab such bookies and corrupt people through FIA.

“I can’t say that big guns are behind the bookies and the PCB is feeling fear of nabbing such bookies. But it is the task of the proper forum to reach such persons through proper investigation.”Former chairman also differed with the point of the PCB lawyer Taffazul Rizvi that the PCB had no jurisdiction to disclose or punish those elements.

“The gambling is illegal in Pakistan and the laws against it are existing, so the PCB must hand over such persons’ name to the FIA to deal with such elements strictly to root out the evil,” he observed.

Asked if he had any regrets for allowing Wasim, Ijaz, Inzamam and some other players to keep on playing for Pakistan after they were sidelined by then Chief Executive PCB Majid Khan as an inquiry headed by retired Justice Ijaz Yousuf was in progress against them in a gambling case, Khalid said: “No. I have no regrets for my that decision because there were no strong evidences against the cricketers who were sidelined simply on doubts.

“First of all I have not seen any inquiry report of Justice Ijaz Yousuf, who was an honourable member of the then PCB council. Moreover, how I could sidelined these star players just on doubts when nothing concrete was available against them?” he asked. “It was not fair that three PCB council members made an inquiry against the star players and sidelined them.

“Majid Khan as chief executive had also appointed a far junior player Rashid Latif as captain of Pakistan then, which I overruled and replaced Rashid with Aamir Sohail. My entry in the PCB [as chairman] no doubt dashed all the planning of Majid and Rashid,” he recalled.

“What alternate was available of those stars players who had been serving the country for the last many years.

Khalid, however, said he was extremely disappointed by the performances of Pakistan’s many superstars in the World Cup 1999, in which Pakistani players did not play a fair game against India and Bangladesh.

“That was a strong team and no one was expecting the defeat at the hands of Bangladesh and I was ashamed of the team’s performance and clearly stated that the team did not play a fair game but it does not mean some spot-fixing or gambling was involved, as it was the job of the proper forum to decide that,” he said. “And the government of Pakistan did appoint judicial commission of Justice Qayyum and Justice Bhandari to look into the suspect games which were the proper forum to investigate the matters.

“If anyone can recall I was also sacked as PCB chairman despite the fact Pakistan played the final in 1999 World Cup, which was not a mean achievement then,” he added.

The ex-PCB chief it was awesome that positive values in the society were vanishing away.

Moreover, he said the media had wrongly reported him that he had said that Ata-ur-Rehman twisted his statement against Wasim Akram.

“I am not saying that from myself I was just quoting the findings of the Justice Qayyum commission,” he concluded.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1553798/no-regrets-for-allowing-star-cricketers-to-continue-khalid

 

[Saj]

“What alternate was available of those stars players who had been serving the country for the last many years.

A decision that potentially meant corruption continued and kept on rearing its ugly head again and again in Pakistan cricket.

 

[Savak]

A decision that potentially meant corruption continued and kept on rearing its ugly head again and again in Pakistan cricket.

Naturally, had stern decisions and examples been made of the superstars back then, we would not have lived to see the events of 2010 onwards