October 03, 2007	Wednesday	Ramazan 20, 1428

KARACHI, Oct 2: The International Cricket Council’s Anti-corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) officer is finding it extremely difficult to keep a vigilant eye on the team dressing rooms and on officials after the use of Wi-Fi Internet wireless system at the National Stadium for the first time during the ongoing first Test.

Lt Col Nuruddin Khawaja, the ACSU Regional Security Manager for Pakistan and Bangladesh, has been keeping a busy watch on the two dressing rooms as the game’s governing body’s anti-corruption regulations don’t allow either the players or the officials to use laptops in their dressing rooms during the course of an international match.

But due to the signals received from the Wi-Fi system, set up in the stadium, anyone can now use the Internet on his laptop in most parts of the stadium including the dressing rooms.

Insiders claim that Michael Owen-Smith, the media manager of the South African team, had also gone to Lt Col Nuruddin to seek permission from him if he could use the laptop in his dressing room.

“But the retired army official flatly told him this couldn’t be allowed under any circumstances, and if he wanted to send or receive any mail he should do so in the media communication area,” the sources said.

The insiders further said that Lt Col Nuruddin had also been visiting the dressing rooms to see that the computer analysts who use the laptop to record the match proceedings were not using the Wi-Fi to surf the net or to send or receive mails.

In the past normal telephone line Internet links were provided to the media at the stadium but this is the first time the event managers have installed a Wi-Fi system to provide wireless Internet connections.