Thread: Mohammad Asif arrested from Dubai airport for possesing drugs
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Old 04-06-2008, 12:53 AM in reply to DomainK's post starting "Well, Rachael, I am not sure that a..."
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Originally Posted by DomainK View Post
Well, Rachael, I am not sure that a strict punishment will be enforced. May be he will be banned and unbanned on appeal again. PCB banned Akhtar (which was supposed to be final) and then postponed the ban to allow him to play IPL and now they have scheduled another hearing for him (he will possibly be unbanned again).

And something similar has happened in the past. If I remember right, Wasim Akram, Waqar Yunis and Mushtaq Ahmed were arrested in Jamaica in 1993 for possessing drugs. Pakistan used diplomatic pressure and got them out of trouble. Not sure if they were punished in any way.
Only very loosely similar.

That was for marijuana that they were having a puff of in their down time between tests.

As they say when in Rome do as the Romans do, in their case they were in the land of Bob Marley and were doing what Bob Marley did....chuff chuff cough cough
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