{"id":4883,"date":"2010-09-03T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/09\/03\/cricket-corruption-will-not-affect-flood-aid\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:46:52","slug":"cricket-corruption-will-not-affect-flood-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/03\/cricket-corruption-will-not-affect-flood-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket corruption \u2018will not\u2019 affect flood aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>International Development Secretary meets city\u2019s Pakistani commuunity<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"232\" height=\"258\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/AndrewMitchellPakistan_232x180.jpg\"\/>THE Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell has reassured Birmingham&#8217;s Pakistani community that the current scandal surrounding Pakistan&#8217;s national cricket team won&#8217;t affect compassion shown by British people towards flood victims.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Sutton Coldfield MP spoke at a BBC WM debate at the Attock Cricket Club in Mosley about the floods which have devastated Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking to members of Birmingham\u2019s Pakistani community he touched on recent corruption events involving three Pakistan players which have shocked the cricketing world. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Sutton Coldfield MP said that while the cricket shame was untimely, it not a matter of life or death.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cEveryone in Britain should accept what people in Pakistan have said that cricket lovers in both Pakistan and Britain are deeply dismayed by this and people in Pakistan and Britain equally are committed to the task of re-building Pakistan after these terrible events,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Mitchell travelled to Pakistan last month to witness the scale of the devastation that has left an estimated 20 million homeless. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He\u00a0justified the large amounts of aid donated to Pakistan by Britain as a moral obligation and praised the generosity of the British public in donating over \u00a340m to the DEC appeal for the victims of the floods. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Development Secretary meets city\u2019s Pakistani commuunity THE Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell has reassured Birmingham&#8217;s Pakistani community that the current scandal surrounding Pakistan&#8217;s national cricket team won&#8217;t affect compassion shown by British people towards flood victims. &#13; The Sutton Coldfield MP spoke at a BBC WM debate at the Attock Cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}