Given the circumstances in our high-profile team selection process, he would have been wasted. I mean, would he have been selected in place of Danish Kaneria? I say he would have, had selectors given a chance to someone other than Kaneria (Abdul Rehman was a successful, but short example). But you have to earn your bread somewhere and if South Africa are or will be giving him a chance to be a part of the team (the pair of Johan Botha and Tahir), all praises to him for taking this decision and joining overseas.
Being a Muslim, I will do as I am told in Islam that wherever I will get to play, I will try to give my best for them and do something special for them," he said.
Highlighted, given the fact that many choose not to side with someone and therefore dismiss the cricketer as being Pakistani who joins a team with a separate allegiance (IPL etc).