Stand Up for your team !!

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."  Malcolm X

Clear your thoughts before you read this!

I can't understand how we can just accept something published by a 3rd grade newspaper with an evidence that is so damn questionable that I can't even tell you. I hate this mentality of our people, how can you trust others over your own people. Before accusing and cursing the players, has any one of you really looked into the matter and tried to do an investigation yourself? Let me highlight certain points which make this whole damn scam a little shady shall i say. So here they are:

First of all goto the newsoftheworld.co.uk and look at the picture of salman butt with majeed and the reporter, its a bloody fake picture for Gods sake, If any of your friends knows photoshop, he can tell you so damn easily. But still to give you guys a head start, look closely at salman butts  coat, and the collar of his shirt and coat, the shirt collar is not creating a shadow and the coat collar looks fake as hell. I mean just look at it, even a blind man can tell you that it is fake.

Now Moving on to the videos, tell me? If you are undercover, you will make a video with a hidden camera right ? Now the amazing thing about these videos are, you have different camera angles to it, and the camera is so freaking still as if its placed on a tripod, i mean give me a break, is this big bookie just letting the reporter tape him knowing he can get into trouble?

And if they claim that they got to know about the no-balls, why did they take 2 days to publish the damn news, why not just when our first innings started? Fishy isnt it ? Through out the videos, i was hearing a name AHMED all the time, and no other names were mentioned. Guess what, I saw Manchester United match a couple of days back, i shoot a video 10 minutes after match with some guy to whom i tell man giggs will b tripped down for a penalty in the 32nd minute, brilliant right? I predicted the future which had happened in the past. How ironic!

Now another aspect, lets say your a bookie who earns plenty of money every game. Would you sell for just 150,000 pounds, i mean a bookie makes more than this in just an over! And after getting caught, he is so generous to these reporters, that he starts telling them about more things that are gonna happen. And that too such broad statements, like the bowlers will give away a lot of runs in t20 match, i mean WOW just WOW, as if bowlers dont concede runs in the t20 form of cricket! At first there was no mention of Wahab Riaz and Umer Amin, than all of a sudden wallah, the jacket video comes. Now there is majeed and a reporter only thru out the videos, and there is a ghost who is filming from different angles, which are supposed to be hidden cameras. 

We can judge aamir by the so called 'over-acting' on the no ball, but we wont judge him on his passion and the fire inside him to lead his country to glory when he took endless amount of wickets thru out the series right? Shame on us!

Our media specially a certain GEO TV is the most disgraceful channel in the history of Pakistan because as soon as the news broke, they accepted the allegations, and started a program which had the almighty Mr Attitude Aamir Sohail who was talking about being honest and being a true Pakistani from within, Hello, are you freaking kidding me? You were the one involved in the 1996 Quarter Final match fixing against India, now you are talking about honesty, you should not even open your mouth on this topic.

Now lets come to our team management, consisting of Mr. Yawar Saeed, [a PPP likeable person], Mr. Ejaz Butt [another great friend of our President] and some others. Ohh, suddenly i see the greediness and maybe just maybe if all this is true, the money actually went to Zardari, coz he has been involved in alot of PCB matters you know. And then he comes n talks about how this is such a bad thing and they should'nt have taken bribes and he will personally look into the matter, Mr. President, you are the most corrupt person and greedy person on the face of the planet, please dont even talk about the players when you are so dirty yourself.

This whole scandal is not something to be ashamed of, but our attitudes and response towards these allegations certainly is something that i am deeply ashamed of. Even the BBC published a news saying that 'NEWS OF THE WORLD CLAIMS of allegations' but we had already jumped to conclusion because we just believe what the media creates. Until one researches himself on a news, he or she has no right to make a judgement. Being a part of the media industry i know the only race in journalism today is that who MAKES or CREATES the news that will sell the most, not the news that is credible and based on facts. And trust me, this has been approved by people working for news channels as well, its all about creating a news for the sake of viewer-ship.

I put my self in the shoes of our young guns and i wake up one morning, read these allegations published, turn on the TV and witness my whole nation and my people for whom I give my all every second accuse me and wanting to punish me, how morale-boosting right? We beat Australia after 15 years, we beat england at their home, out bowling attack was being dubbed by many as the best in the world and without a shadow of a doubt it certainly is. There was hope that finally we had a squad that given some time, would blossom into one of the best teams in the world. But how can the west tolerate something good that comes from Pakistan when our own people cant tolerate it. I fear that before this team embarks on a journey to greatness, we have buried them deep into such accusations that could destroy the careers of by far the best young talent in the world.

The players work for the team management who work for the PCB which is in the pocket of our President. So if there is someone to blame if all of this turns out to be true, than it is the management and the board but not the players. Because i do not believe that any of the young players in this team have a bigger say than the management of the PCB.

I urge every Pakistani out there who has a little brain a some heart, to stand up for your team atleast atleast till the investigation is complete. Would you leave the hand of your loved one if they were in the same situation?Please do not let the spirit of Pakistan be broken by some controversy created by the west. There are very few good things coming out of our country which give us a glimmer of hope that there is still a future, a prosperous one. And these young guns certainly did give us that hope, please do not abandon them when they need our support the most. Stand Up. Speak Up!

"Mass media is the weapon of mass destruction in this new era." - Danish Saeed