New Delhi, July 14 -- Former Under Secretary of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, R V S Mani, alleged that drug trafficking was a recurring practice by Pakistani cricket teams and delegations visiting India.

Mani namedropped Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, both former cricketers who were banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2006 after testing positive for the banned substance nandrolone.

Akhtar was banned from cricket for two years, and Asif for one after a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) drugs tribunal found both guilty of using the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone following positive dope tests. Both players tested positive in internal dope tests conducted by the PCB at the end of September 2006. They were subsequently remov...