Islamabad, Nov 4: The media in Pakistan has welcomed the jail terms handed out to three international cricketers convicted of fixing parts of a test match against England last year.
Islamabad-based daily The News says Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were “blinded by greed” and there should be “no tolerance for cheats and thieves.”
The front page headline on the English language daily The Express Tribune reads: “Teammates to inmates.” The newspaper urges the International Cricket Council to do more to stamp out corruption in the game.
Butt, Asif and Amir were sentenced to varying jail sentences by a British court on Thursday. They were convicted of conspiring with agent Mazhar Majeed to bowl no-balls at pre-determined times as part of a betting scam.
