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Zardari asks PCB to help tainted trio  Pak president Zardari
asks PCB to help tainted trio  November 05, 2011 15:30 IST
Disappointed with the Pakistan Cricket Board's handling of the
spot-fixing trial at the end of which led to three of country's
cricketers being jailed in the UK, Pakistan President Asif Ali
Zardari has instructed it to provide all necessary legal help to
the tainted trio.  Interior minister Rehman Malik said Zardari,
also the patron-in-chief of the PCB, is miffed with the way the
matter was dealt with by the Board.  - Sentencing remarks of
Justice Cooke  The spot-fixing trial ended on Thursday with
former Test captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and
Mohammad Amir being jailed after 20 days of non-stop hearings.
Malik said that he had briefed the President on the trial and
sentences handed to the three players.  "The President has
directed that he be given a com