"It is no use fighting this case because the ICC tribunal has already decided what to do. Having this hearing is all a drama," Aftab Gul a former Test cricketer, told Pakistani news channel ARY on Saturday.
A three-member tribunal will sit in Doha from Jan. 6 to 11 to consider alleged breaches of the ICC anti-corruption code by Butt and fellow players Mohammad Aamir and Mohammad Asif.
The ICC provisionally suspended the trio after an investigation into newspaper allegations that they arranged for deliberate no balls to be delivered in the fourth test against England in August.
Gul told said: "I don't think they are going to get justice at this hearing."
Meanwhile, the head of an influential Pakistani parliamentary committee on sports has resigned in frustration at the state of affairs in national cricket.
"The state of cricket affairs is before everyone, it is in poor shape and yet nothing is being done to change the tide," Iqbal Muhammad Ali, who headed the National Assembly standing committee on sports, told a news conference on Saturday.
"I am resigning because the government has not bothered to implement any of the recommendations by this committee for improvement and betterment of sports in the country," Iqbal added.
The national assembly committee has frequently summoned officials from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to appear before it, most recently on the spot-fixing allegations against three players, and has publicly called for PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt to resign.
