LAHORE, SEPT 3: The main accuser withdrew match-fixing allegations against suspended Pakistan captain Wasim Akram before a judicial cricket inquiry commission here today, officials said.Discarded pacer Ata-ur-Rehman told the commission headed by Lahore High Court Judge Malik Mohammad Qayyum that no match fixing and bribery had ever taken place, they said. The judge ordered a show-cause notice be issued to Rehman over perjury and banned him from leaving the country without the commission's permission.
"Ata-ur-Rehman has recorded three different statements before the commission. Court registrar Abdus Salam Khawar said.
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