Qayyum report 'clears Pakistan'

A JUDICIAL inquiry has found "no planned match-fixing" by any Pakistani  cricketers, the Pakistan Cricket Board's chairman, Tauqir Zia, said yesterday in Lahore.

Judge Malik Abdul Qayyum, who conducted the inquiry, has, however, proposed "bans and fines" against some players "only because of their non-co-operation with the inquiry," the PCB chairman said.

About 70 players, officials and others testified during the year-long inquiry, which concluded last October. Zia said the inquiry report would be made public in the next eight to 10 days.

"The cricket world will get a lesson from our report and they will know how to conduct an inquiry," he said. "Pakistan's image will not be stained over this. We are giving a lesson to others."

Zia said it was up to his country's president, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, who is also patron of the PCB, to order action on the recommendations made by Judge Qayyum in his report.