Pakistan has mastered the art of being victimised to a fine degree. They are like an irrant child, who beats up his brother and then cries loudly that he himself has been unfairly attacked first or punished unjustly. It is time someone called their bluff once and for all.
They do this every single time they instigate a terror attack in India. They go aggressively in the media, and win the war of sound bytes by proclaiming their innocence or rather lack of proof of their guilt a bit too loudly. The world at large, which are not as roguish as this infant terrible, are too gentlemanly to take them on their own game, especially India. The result? They get away with murder, literally.
They did this when the Srilankan team was attacked by gunmen in Pakistan, leading to ICC cancelling all future matches in Pakistan. They cried their innocence from roof tops, claimed that it would kill Pakistan Cricket bla bla bla and got away with it without being sanctioned or slapped with a harsher punishment that was justly deserved.
Now the spot fixing case. There is enough circumstantial evidence to implicate Butt, Asif and Aamer. And Mohammed Asif is a serial offender - he was caught in possession of drugs in the Dubai Airport and it took intervention at the highest level to get him released, but he is personna non grata in Dubai (It is another matter that Pakistan accepted this meekly. They never let out a peep about Dubai Customs falsely implicating Asif. Hey! They know what the consequences if they hurt the sentimates of one of the middle east rich countries). Now, instead of suspending the trio pending the completion of an enquiry (which is what is the normal practice in any decent organization), the Pakistan high commission and the cricket board has been going hammer and tongs at how the players have been framed and how Pakistan cricket has been singled out as a victim. The classic act of the hunted turning the hunter. When ICC got fed up with Pakistans ambivalence, they promptly suspended the unholy trio, and instead of accepting it meekly, Pakistan is on the offensive, even insinuating the Pawar, an Indian, who is the head of ICC is behind this, thus turning this into an Indo-Pak animosity, which is rubbish. Anyone who knows Pawar, is aware that he is one of those who will protect the corrupt, for he himself is corrupt to the boot (remember that he was the main backer of Lalit Modi in BCCI and tried his best to protect him during the IPL scandal)
Pakistan Cricket is rotting, like the Country. It is the nerve centre of corruption and unethical practices. Remember how the matches in Sharjah during 1980s were fixed, forcing India to take the tough decision on not sending teams to Sharjah tournaments, which eventually killed that tournament. Remember the ball tampering under Wasim and Waqar? Remember the match fixing involving Salim Malik et al? Remember the whispers about drug use by Imran and Co? Remember the various allegations of match fixing of late involving Kamran Akmal and a few others? And now this. Like the country, Pakistan Cricket is a pest that should be squashed at the earliest.
Surely, if one can throw out Zimbabwe cricket just because they have a dictator ruling the country, and isolate South Africa because the Country was practicing apartheid, then Pakistan can be given the boot from International Cricket till the Country and the Board turns a new leaf. Certain people understand only certain language.
