India won the first Test in Multan with only a few thousand people watching in the stadium despite the huge interest cricket between the two countries normally generates.

On the first day of the second Test in Lahore on Monday, there were just a few hundred people in the stands.

"We'll have to take some radical steps," Rameez Raja, chief executive of the PCB, told Reuters on Monday.

"We've sent special ticket packages to schools and colleges to fill up the stands. We've slashed the ticket rates by 50 per cent and other such measures are in the pipeline," he said.

India are playing their first full series in Pakistan in over 14 years after political tensions between the two south Asian neighbours eased recently.

Cricket matches between the two neighbours have always been intense affairs, followed closely by millions of passionate fans on both sides of the border.

Raja said the main reason for the lack of crowds was that the one-day series was held before the Tests.

"When India insisted on playing the one-day internationals before the Test series, we were always apprehensive it would reduce the crowd interest for the Tests," Raja said.

"Once India won the series 3-2, the interest in the Tests was bound to reduce further. No one likes to see their team losing."

The low turnout for the Tests has been in stark contrast to the packed stadiums for the five one-day matches.

The PCB is hoping fans from India will add to the crowds over the next four days of the Test.

"About 2,500 tickets for this match were sold over the internet to Indians," he said. "We're expecting them to come," Raja said.

The third and final Test starts in Rawalpindi on April 13.

Meanwhile, Pakistan will ask the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a code of conduct to prevent former cricketers from making match-fixing allegations without substantial evidence.

Raja said on Monday a letter would be sent to the ICC this week asking for the issue to be put on the agenda of the next executive board meeting of the sport's governing body.

"We want the ICC to put in place a code for former players and officials who tend to cause a lot of damage by making match-fixing allegations against a team without evidence," he said.

The PCB has asked its disciplinary committee to look into possible action against former captain Rashid Latif, who hinted that Pakistan had intentionally lost the fourth one-day international against India last month.

"Even a common man could observe that the players were acting on a script because the body language of the players was not as it should have been," Latif said on the local Indus television channel.

Latif, who had first made match-fixing charges against some of his teammates in 1995 during a tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa, has denied making any direct allegations this time.

"I have only expressed my suspicions," he told this news agency.

Raja said making serious allegations without proof was upsetting for the players.

"That's why we want to involve the ICC in this matter. This is a serious issue and needs to be tackled because it's causing damage to the image of cricketers and the sport," he said.