Usually top players don't engage in fixing. As Lou Vincent's ex wife put it , "like other alleged fixers who believe they have a short, underpaid shelf-life, wanted more than the game had given him".
Fixers target these fringe, out of favour cricketers like Jamshed. Guys who deep down probably know they aren't going to consistently play/have long careers. Butt was in and out of the side with a poor record, he probably picked up fixing before he was made captain (which was abrupt and probably a shock even to him). Asif in and out of the sides, banned from UAE, drug convictions etc., he hardly played many matches, hence no surprise he fixed.
Amir is the exception. But if he had waited for the domestic offers to come in, he probably wouldn't have fixed. He was new, perhaps too greedy to wait and play a few years to really get the money in.
In Pakistan we are lenient on fixing. We never extend bans, even campaign to get them reduced. And try to get players who fixed back into the international fold after bans. The risk is smaller, hence more are tempted to fix. In a lot of other countries, it's life ban. Too much of a risk, it's not worth it.
In other countries fixing is also seen as more morally wrong. Cricketers understand that. Look at Lou Vincent's apology, he gave no excuses, he understood the gravity of what he did. And he got the harshest ban possible, I don't think he's even allowed to enter a cricket ground, let alone coach or play.
In Pakistan it isn't as much. The way Butt talked about it (and Haider too) they act like everyone was doing it so might as well. They also don't really see spot fixing as the same crime either, as if bowling no balls doesn't hurt anyone. And this isn't meaning every cricketer does it, they're talking about their team. It's near impossible really to know if the other teams players are fixing (unless they approach you), but much easier to be aware of your own.
So I don't really think it's turning a blind eye. We just suffer from it more I think, and as I said the big names from our country don't fix. Like Afridi, YK, Misbah etc can you really imagine them fixing? Of course not. And even if it's the case that other boards turn a blind eye, it doesn't excuse us. You don't use someone else's bad doings to excuse your own. I care more about ridding Pakistan of fixing than I do other boards. Which is why I don't really think it's a bad thing fixers cropping up. It shows work is being done to get rid of the fixers. If anything I'm grateful when cricketers get banned, it stops them before they fix more and get others into fixing. What we do wrong is showing too much leniency to get them back.
