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[VIDEOS] Questionable events and decisions during the match between India and Afghanistan

A lot of grass was left on his pitch when Bangladesh played SA.Pakistan also played on this greenish pitch.There was seam and swing early on.Indian Cricket Council aka ICC made sure India played on this pitch.This pitch was the best pitch for batting.It is puzzling why Afghan did not bat first.Afghans are not good at chasing.The margins of victory when chasing is less than batting fist and bowling teams cheaply.There is something fishy
 
Whether it was fixed or not, either way you look at it, it was the most disgusting day of cricket in this tournament.
 
So supposedly India needed to win by 63 runs to boost their NRR above NZL.
What was the win margin?
 
Look I am not for one minute saying this match was fixed.

However what disturbed me most was the Afghan players body language.

Against most teams but especially most recently against Pakistan they were pumped up ready for war.

I don’t mind seeing such passion but then show it consistently. But today it was very disappointing to see.

And it matters because a lack of intensity can affect your performance on the field. They were far too laid back. And def they should have batted first.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I don't know about beating. When have they ever beaten a major side that isn't Bangladesh or West Indies? They can challenge teams, sure. And somehow they find a way to take Pakistan to the limit. But if you look at their side, there's nothing that tells you that they are a complete side.

But I wouldn't call them minnows either. They are definitely a few notches above the minnow level which is evident by their No. 7 T20 ranking.
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I do not believe anyone claiming them to be a complete side.

Questioning multiple coincidences that are only evident in their match against India and not other teams.
 
Yup, absolutely impossible that India just played a good game and Afghanistan struggled... MATCH FIXING 100%
 
Artaxerxes said:
A lot of grass was left on his pitch when Bangladesh played SA.Pakistan also played on this greenish pitch.There was seam and swing early on.Indian Cricket Council aka ICC made sure India played on this pitch.This pitch was the best pitch for batting.It is puzzling why Afghan did not bat first.Afghans are not good at chasing.The margins of victory when chasing is less than batting fist and bowling teams cheaply.There is something fishy
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na, Pakistan played on a different pitch. 2 pitches next to this one on which Pakistan played.
 
Yep, I can't believe India won against Afghanistan and Afghanistan played like a #7 ranked team instead of the #1 team that they are.
 
All you guys sound just like those people that accused Shami of being an ISI agent and Indian playing for Pakistan kinda **.

Based on the logic you are using, India fixed their first two games as well because they looked really flat and played out of character cricket which really cannot be explained by anything but match-fixing but no one said anything like that. I wonder why..???

Afghanistan has not looked like the same opposition since losing to Pakistan because it really took a lot out of them. They played really well in that game but that doesn't mean they are a great team. They can surprise people on their day but to expect them to surprise India today was probably too much for people to ask from them. And instead of accepting that, everyone is resorting to the same old excuse of "match-fixing".
 
Lol an Indian poster just trying to troll Pakistanis by trying to take attention away from India’s hammering in first two matches and a few biting on his attempt. Lol.
 
I do think that the toss decision made by Afghanistan was poor. They did not back their strengths.

However, this talk about the match being fixed is just hearsay.

Still, I expected them to put up a decent fight instead of getting brutally undone.

Credit to India for finally using some sense and bringing Ashwin into the squad.
 
IAJ said:
Lol an Indian poster just trying to troll Pakistanis by trying to take attention away from India’s hammering in first two matches and a few biting on his attempt. Lol.
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Lol no. I am a Pakistani who has been following and supporting Pakistani Cricket before you were even born but I am definitely in the minority because I have the ability to watch cricket objectively rather than always searching for conspiracy theories to explain results when they go against my expectations.
 
Rana said:
I’ll give Afghanistan the benefit of the doubt and try to work out what happened today.

They won the toss and went for India’s biggest weakness and concern, batting first. India would have bowled first too had they won the toss, this just worked out better for India as the track is very flat.

Afghanistan played this entire innings with a defeatist mindset, including their fans who have surprisingly become soft. They know that their best chance to go forward is 6 points and not 8. What they will try to do is preserve the nrr and simply try and beat NZ, which should also increase that net run rate

They will aim for 160 here, take the defeat and go guns blazing against the kiwis
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Not going to work.
NZ and afg will be atihhy game either way- so India need to beat Scotland and Namibia handsomely, so afg look to be struggling here
 
I didnt for one moment expect Afghanistan to beat India.
However I did expect them to put up a fight.
Instead they took some unusual decisions and frankly just didn't turn up.

For a side that is still very much in the competition the body language was just awful snd there was no intensity whatsoever.

I hope they play this way against the kiwis and get spanked. If however they come in to the game fist pumping and chest thumping andd are on it from ball one then I will certainly question today's game and I think rightly so.
 
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LOL this is T20 , india played well and afghanistan bad on this day , hence the result, also India is way better team than overrated Afghans, i like it how they thrashed Afghans.
 
Why would the Afghans want to lose the match intentionally? Beating India would have ensured a place in the semifinals
 
Asghar Afghan couldn't bear losing a well-fought match against Pakistan and had to retire mid tournament.

And here are all the analysts/ex-players on our media saying day and night how much we love the Afghans and their team is our second team blah blah

Against India they don't even show up to play. Bizarre.
 
Sirris said:
Why would the Afghans want to lose the match
intentionally? Beating India would have ensured a place in the semifinals
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R u for real? Money talks. Money and IPL contracts over semifinal any day of the year.. It doesn't get more obvious.. Shameless afghan team.. Against Pakistan they turn up n play as if their life depends on it.. Today they never turned up....
 
Nah nothing dodgy. Afghanistan just capitulated. I said before the game I wouldn't be surprised if they did - though I was expecting it with the bat rather than with the ball. However well they have played they are still ultimately a good 'minnow' side. They are not at the level of Sri Lanka let alone Pakistan or India. So yes, they will sometimes have these games.
 
Good clean game and the Afghans batted smsartly to ensure they didnt lose by a huge margin. They are still in the tournament. If they beat NZ I think there is a higher probability they will be through than India's.
 
India can make up 1.5 NRR easily over two games against Namibia and Scotland. I feel Afghanistan are now out of the world cup. They can beat NZ but it won't be by a huge margin and India will go through.

Still I'd say the game is 90% NZ 10% Afghanistan.
 
Stewie said:
Good clean game and the Afghans batted smsartly to ensure they didnt lose by a huge margin. They are still in the tournament. If they beat NZ I think there is a higher probability they will be through than India's.
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This

But Afghanistan could have scored way more tbh
 
the way they were losing wikets, they could have been bowled out. Currently their NRR is sitting pretty at close to 1.5. India's is at 0.07 something.

Thats a pretty big difference to cover in two games. If Afghanistan beat NZ, I am sure it will be safe to say they will be through. India has to win both of their remaining games by bare minimum 65 runs or so if I am not mistaken (if they bat first) If they chase, the equation is even tougher.

Afghans played a good game to make sure they dont completely get chucked out of the running.
 
As I’ve said before, normally I would be joining in and criticising the conspiracy theorists and asking them to stop being silly and quit moaning.

But that Afghan body language from start to finish today ……..it’s bugging me.

And a nagging suspicion is refusing to go away.
 
My advice, also see post match conferences. The decision to bowl was made with dew in mind.

The same reason india had dew in mind in last game and tried to play aggressive at start to give some additional runs for bowlers. Did not work.

Sometimes it works and other times it does not like nz game and this game..

Just appreciate winning team and move on
 
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A bit bizarre.

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It's clear as day what's going on here.
 
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Honestly don't think it's got anything to do with fixing but more to do with Afghanistan playing like minnows whenever they play India, and like lions when they play specific nations *cough cough*

Their performance was atrocious today, and I can see why some may feel like something untoward happened, but I just feel once they decided to bat 2nd and chase, their main weapon of pressuring the batting side when chasing effectively reduced their chances of winning.

If they spent half the time they did hating Pakistan and their fans fighting, and more time on playing with the same passion and energy they showed in previous games they'd be a decent outfit.
 
I am not sure if its dodgy but the Afgh let themselves down with a very poor performance. They seemed to be happy just to be on the same pitch as India.
 
Truly miss the game which was once played with heart and soul.

Now games are being sold smh and players are being bought in auction for leagues and also “bought” outside of auction but from the opposition
 
The whole game looked abit suspicious however nothing will happen in the end
 
Last Monetarist said:
A bit bizarre.

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Looks very suspicious.
 
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Kohli said:
Truly miss the game which was once played with heart and soul.

Now games are being sold smh and players are being bought in auction for leagues and also “bought” outside of auction but from the opposition
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THIS...

I miss the days when games were played with heart and soul when Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja both took the field for India.
 
Romali_rotti said:
THIS...

I miss the days when games were played with heart and soul when Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja both took the field for India.
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It was players selling themselves. Now official cricket boards are buying matches. That is nowhere close to this. Where the boards are involved in fixing matches
 
Kohli said:
It was players selling themselves. Now official cricket boards are buying matches. That is nowhere close to this. Where the boards are involved in fixing matches
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It was always bad, then and now, makes no difference. They are just more creative now, the game has always been corrupt, learn to live with it..
 
Afghanistan's attitude was the most questionable thing for me. They don't try half as hard versus India as they do against Pak. That is so very clear to me.
 
RexRex said:
It's clear as day what's going on here.
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This is supposed to be the evidence?

At 91-0 in 12th over India needed this dude to intentionally “misfiled” and let a 4 happen?

I can’t imagine how big of a trouble India would have been if the Afghan kid had held the ball. I haven’t followed IPL but lets see in which ipl team this guy gets in.
 
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Afghan players were crying when they lost against Pakistan.I have never seen them so happy after losing to India.They are celebrating their loss.There are too many indicators which suggest something fishy was going one.Scotland put spirited fight against NZ.They lost by 16 runs due to poor bowling by one bowler.Most people rate Afghanistan as better than associates.
 
PakLFC said:
Afghanistan's attitude was the most questionable thing for me. They don't try half as hard versus India as they do against Pak. That is so very clear to me.
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They become Ghazis all of a sudden against Pakistan

Their fans are possessed whenever they play us

Their spinners do not give us an inch. But against India, they are happy to bowl pies. They are happy to take pathetic reviews and laugh whilst taking them. No animosity, no passion, no emotion. Their legendary captain retired mid tournament because he lost to pakistan.
 
Rana said:
They become Ghazis all of a sudden against Pakistan

Their fans are possessed whenever they play us

Their spinners do not give us an inch. But against India, they are happy to bowl pies. They are happy to take pathetic reviews and laugh whilst taking them. No animosity, no passion, no emotion. Their legendary captain retired mid tournament because he lost to pakistan.
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I get that they try their hardest against Pak. The question is why don't they even make an effort versus India so much that they hardly break sweat. Something is clearly not right here
 
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Think it's just a case of a pretty mediocre team being exposed by a much better team and looking more like the favourite team people expected in this tournament.

In this social media, heavy leak days, I don't think India would be risking to fix a match they were already going to win. And supposedly fixing a match that likely still won't result in a semi's for India unless Afghanistan pull of a miracle vs NZ.
 
Will be funny if India ends up losing to either Scotland or Namibia
 
The match fixing theory will be proven if they go at NZ in the same manner they went after Namibia and Scotland. If they come down hard that’s pretty much proof that they participated in a fix because the argument against this match being fixed is

- Afghanistan was under pressure
- they were facing a non Pakistani good team
- they are tired
- they were not that good of a team

If all of a sudden they play NZ as a world beater side again all those excuses go out of the window as it just so happens that they go into a shell only against their hosts india. We shall see
 
Savak said:
Will be funny if India ends up losing to either Scotland or Namibia
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The way Namibia played vs Pakistan and the way Scotland played vs NZ both teams want to end the wc all guns blazing so won’t be surprised if they catch india off guard
 
India has less than 5% chance of qualifying even if India wins both games and Afghanistan wins against New Zealand.

Think you guys need to cool your jets a bit.

Usually a major success like the Indian test series win in Australia would bring out the best conspiracy theories from Pak fans like "the Australians went soft because of IPL contracts", etc. The Indo-Pak relations must be at an all time low if a consolation win against Afghanistan after all but crashing out of the group stage of a world cup brings out the conspiracy theories from Pakistani fans.:narine
 
street cricketer said:
India has less than 5% chance of qualifying even if India wins both games and Afghanistan wins against New Zealand.

Think you guys need to cool your jets a bit.

Usually a major success like the Indian test series win in Australia would bring out the best conspiracy theories from Pak fans like "the Australians went soft because of IPL contracts", etc. The Indo-Pak relations must be at an all time low if a consolation win against Afghanistan after all but crashing out of the group stage of a world cup brings out the conspiracy theories from Pakistani fans.:narine
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You can dismiss Pakistan fans due to your deeply ingrained traditional vendetta and vengeance, but today, even the likes of Sir Viv Richards and David Gower were in a jaw dropping shock seeing how Afghanistan played. There were quite a few question marks.
 
Afghanistan gave tough time to India in ODI world cup 2019. Now some thing fishy is going on. What kind of injury Mujib, a spinner, has sustained that he still has not recovered?. Asghar Afghan retired before the match with India, which was very suspicious thing to do. Nabi bowled only one over. Choosing to bowl first so that India can make big score. It seems Karim Jannat was not part of the scheme so he was only given one over and he made 42 (22) in his ignorance of...….

I agree that Afghanistan team is overrated but its their fighting spirit which distinguished them. It was missing in this match. They displayed very weird and awkward body language.
 
realitygaf said:
The match fixing theory will be proven if they go at NZ in the same manner they went after Namibia and Scotland. If they come down hard that’s pretty much proof that they participated in a fix because the argument against this match being fixed is

- Afghanistan was under pressure
- they were facing a non Pakistani good team
- they are tired
- they were not that good of a team

If all of a sudden they play NZ as a world beater side again all those excuses go out of the window as it just so happens that they go into a shell only against their hosts india. We shall see
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Because teams just can't have bad days. Just because you lot are known to fix games doesn't mean everyone else is too.
 
With a batting order like India, Rohit and Rahul were bound to come back into form. Afg's bowling looks quite toothless without Mujeeb. India's bowling was again not very good apart from Ashwin.

The only thing I dislike is Afg team is always fired up against Pak and treats it as a matter of life or death, but against India they were playing without any energy or fight.
 
BunnyRabbit said:
With a batting order like India, Rohit and Rahul were bound to come back into form. Afg's bowling looks quite toothless without Mujeeb. India's bowling was again not very good apart from Ashwin.

The only thing I dislike is Afg team is always fired up against Pak and treats it as a matter of life or death, but against India they were playing without any energy or fight.
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That's because of the huge rivalry that Afghans share with Pakistan (from a political pov), while the rivalry with India both from a sporting pov and a political pov is non existent.
 
What I'm actually concerned about is that we've been so bad in this tournament that even an expected win against Afghanistan makes people think that the game is fixed. :facepalm:

And just to remind you, Afghans are not like world beaters, they can win on their day but overall they are still a lowly ranked team. You guys are talking as if they are multiple times world champions.
 
sam_ahm said:
What I'm actually concerned about is that we've been so bad in this tournament that even an expected win against Afghanistan makes people think that the game is fixed. :facepalm:

And just to remind you, Afghans are not like world beaters, they can win on their day but overall they are still a lowly ranked team. You guys are talking as if they are multiple times world champions.
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Blame Kohli for destroying India's LOI reputation, not even Indians are confident about India winning against Afghanistan.

With that said, Afghanistan is stronger than what the rankings suggest, I would put them above South Africa myself.
 
Kohli said:
We all know BCCI has all the money in this world. This was a match they had to win and win handsomely to stay in the tournament

Afghanistan wins the toss and somehow which they never do “asks” team India to bat first. Coz India can score big and win with huge margin to take the run rate up on the table.

Next 60% of overs are gone from their spinners. Mujeeb doesn’t play and Nabi bowls just one over.

Pant, Pandya and Rohit who looked terribly out of form, score and score at good sr especially Pandya scores at 270 who was scoring like a granddad

Sad to see the game of cricket has fallen this low
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Dont worry ; I am expecting similar out of the weird strategies from Pakistan in the final as well
lol
 
A couple years back, Afg were on a roll and on their test debut vs India were expected to create an entertaining match. Instead, they got bundled out and Rashid Khan was smashed around for fun.

The problem with yesterday's game is - some Pakistanis have got carried away with their team's performances on their 'home' pitches and these fans have gotten so delusional and arrogant that they think India is some third-class team who have always been playing the way they did vs Pak and NZ. They can't fathom how Afg can compete so well vs Pak and look lackluster vs India.

It would be nice if these same fans recall some of the games during the 29 year hammering. Some of those matches were not too dissimilar to this one.

The reality is - most of the time, Afg is closer to Pak in cricketing levels than they are to India. Hence, those games tend to be more competitive :Dah
 
I think one needs to understand that BCCI can not influence every country.

If that was the case, All Kiwi players play in IPL but yet they beat india in 2019 semi final, Wtc final few months ago and few days ago again beat them.

If there was very strong influence then Kane would have thrown the match.

Afghanistan might be influenced as it is minnow cricketing nation. As for others including say West Indies i do not think they throw matches, remember Wankhede Semi final 2016, Russell blasted India.

2014 world cup final was strange. Yuvraj missed so many balls. But. Sri lanka was not influenced.
 
We are pretty average T 20 team apart from 2007 when we had Yuvi, peak Dhoni, Raina, RP, Harbhajan etc.
It has been our pattern to lose against stronger and thrash weak teams.
If(somehow Afg. turns up against NZ), we reach semifinals, it would be as complete one sided once again.
Top tier teams have hitters with 200 and we dont have batsmen who can strike above 150.
Lower down we dont have Harbhajan, Praveen Kumar either.
 
We are average T20 team( more than likely to lose against Eng, Pak, Nz etc and thrash others)
Decent ODI team.
Very good Test team(could be excellent if somehow batters learn to play swing in SA and NZ)
 
Just one victory and our neighbours are crying for fixing. Imagine the scenes if we actually qualify ,( highly unlikely) for Semi-Finals of T20 World Cup.
 
They definitely under performed did not show any intent to to fight. Biggest surprise was to win the toss and bowl first. Why? because India needed to increase RR and Afghans provided them this opportunity.
 
Runner Up said:
They definitely under performed did not show any intent to to fight. Biggest surprise was to win the toss and bowl first. Why? because India needed to increase RR and Afghans provided them this opportunity.
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Because India lost both game while batting first also due is important factor here to decide bowl first .if you open your eye instead of looking for conspiracy theory .
 
Runner Up said:
Biggest surprise was to win the toss and bowl first. Why? because India needed to increase RR and Afghans provided them this opportunity.
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At the toss, Kohli said, he'd have liked to field first. There's no reason to not believe him because he has said the same thing at the previous two tosses that he lost.

Afg put in India, knowing India didn't want to bat first. They also felt they didn't have the bowling to defend a target under possible dew.

And what's this about batting first to increase RR. Seen this across multiple posts. It really doesn't make much sense :srt
 
Devadwal said:
Because India lost both game while batting first also due is important factor here to decide bowl first .if you open your eye instead of looking for conspiracy theory .
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What about those drop catches, Nabi only bowled one over and what about that fielding at Boundary where the fielder stopping the ball and then pushes the ball towards boundary line LOL.
 
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Wasim and Waqar in no doubt:

“I don’t know why we like to create such conspiracy theories? India are a very good team. They just had couple of bad days at the start of the tournament" : Wasim Akram

“It’s a pointless thing to say and people should not give it much attention" : Waqar Younis
 
zafarsyed said:
Lol no. I am a Pakistani who has been following and supporting Pakistani Cricket before you were even born but I am definitely in the minority because I have the ability to watch cricket objectively rather than always searching for conspiracy theories to explain results when they go against my expectations.
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So you have been following Pakistan cricket more than 4 decades, Ma sha Allah, Shah sahib? Do you really think an indian poster will come here and blame his own board for being involved in match fixing?

India just trashhed a minnow team. They know very well how to handle teams like this.
 
Really did we need to do some under-the-table deal to beat frikkin' Afghanistan in a game of cricket?

Impossible.
 
Afghanistan have a mental block against India, much like Pakistan have against Australia in Australia.

I have never seen Afghanistan run India close, like they regularly do against Pakistan, or other teams. They must overcome that mental block and go toe-to-toe if they want to be considered amongst the contenders.

Having said that, the theories of fixing without evidence is Pakistan's second most popular sport. Go ahead and indulge because that's what you have reduced yourselves to.
 
Didn't watch the match but surely the two bowlers having the best economy rates by far (combined figures 2-0-14-1) have to bowl more than two overs combined, right?

I wonder if Nabi was asked this question and what his response was. Because this sounds like the most clueless piece of captaincy in a long time.
 
MenInG said:
Wasim and Waqar in no doubt:

“I don’t know why we like to create such conspiracy theories? India are a very good team. They just had couple of bad days at the start of the tournament" : Wasim Akram

“It’s a pointless thing to say and people should not give it much attention" : Waqar Younis
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Wasim & Waqar are the last people on earth who should comment on fixing.
 
street cricketer said:
That's because of the huge rivalry that Afghans share with Pakistan (from a political pov), while the rivalry with India both from a sporting pov and a political pov is non existent.
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Why does Afghanistan have rivalry with Pak because WoT left Pakistan no choice in the matter. A weird people Afghans happy to cosy up with Indians yet remain ultra religious
 
Varun said:
Wasim yes, but what's wrong with Waqar?
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I guess some people feel that whole team from that mid 90s era was involved in something or the other at some point. Waqar was mentioned in the Qayyum Report as not cooperating (I think).
 
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