LONDON: The brother of convicted agent Mazhar Majeed, has alleged that
an angry Pakistani cricketer harboring grudge against the then captain
blew the whistle to set a British journalist at Mazhar and the other
players Azhar Majeed said Saqlain Mushtaq introduced him to Inzimam-ul-Haq,
Mohammad Yousuf, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Asif, and Mushtaq Ahmed who he
made friends with down the line. He also revealed that it was he who helped Mazhar strike friendly terms with the cricketers especially Mohammad Asif.Azhar
added that Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) believed he was Mazhar’s
business partner, which was not true at all, as neither International
Cricket Council (ICC), nor PCB, English Cricket Board (ECB), police etc.
raised any questions in this connection. An emotional Azhar
said that both he and his brother love the sport of cricket and he had
no clue whatsoever what spot-fixing was until the media broke the news. He lamented his bother’s wrongdoing saying what Mazhar did was deplorable. “No one should ever indulge in such practices”, Azhar warned.
