Zulqarnain Haider goes missing/ announces retirement/returns back - drama continues

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^^quite possible...

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http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/247144.html

**May 14, 2006

Four Pakistan A players, Hasan Raza, Taufeeq Umar, Misbah-ul-Haq and Zulqarnain Haider, have been fined US$300 for violating the code of conduct during the Eurasia series at Abu Dhabi in April. They were fined because they travelled from Abu Dhabi to Dubai without permission from the manager.

During the journey, the players spent three hours in a Dubai jail for alleged speeding offences but the Pakistan board said that no blame could be attached to the players because the driver - a friend of theirs - was speeding. They were detained by the police because they were not carrying their visas and were released immediately after the manager produced copies of their visas.

All four are free to continue playing domestic cricket.*

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Zulqarnain arrives in Britain: Geo News correspondent

Zulqarnain arrives in Britain: Geo News correspondent DUBAI: Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider arrived in Britain, according to the sms received by Geo News correspondent from the cricketer, Geo News reported Monday.

This morning he went missing from his hotel room in Dubai. Geo News corresponded Sohail Imran, who is friend of the cricketer, received this recent sms from Zulqarnain Haider; the sms revealed that the keeper has arrived in Britain.

Also, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) ordered an inquiry into the episode. Earlier, PCB sources revealed that Zulqarnain has left for England.

The wicketkeeper Haider went missing from his hotel room since 6am this morning.

Sources said he was last seen at 630am while leaving his room. A Source said Shahid Aslam saw the wicketkeeper leaving his room at around 6am; he intercepted Haider, who told he is leaving to receive his relatives and would be back after some time. However, he was not seen around again.

However, in a new twist to the entire episode is a new message received on the mobile phone of Sohail Imran at around 1515am. The sms tells that Zulqarnain was leaving for England and urged security for his family in view of life-threatening messages.

The PCB’s Media Manager Nadeem Sarwar told Geo News that Zulqarnain had already taken his passport from the management on certain pretext last night.

The wicketkeeper said in his Facebook post he was leaving cricket as someone gave him bad message on losing in last match.

The wicketkeeper words are: ‘leaving pakistan cricket because get bad msg fr 1 man fr lose the match in last game.’

Earlier, a message from Zulqarnain’s mobile received on cellphone of Sohail Imran, said he is leaving the cricket as someone is giving him murder threats.

The SMS received on Sohail Imran’s mobile phone said, ‘Match haar jao’ (Lose match.)

In his second MSM to Sohail Imran, the cricketer said he is leaving for England.

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I think...there is something beyond...an SMS made him to leave the cricket ODI...lol...he could have talked to his captain, coach or the manager before the socalled leaving or disappearing...lol

PS: I think...the ISI should take over the control (escorts) of Pakistan sports including the cricket... :D

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I think the Army should take over and replace this Ijaz Butt ...

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/\ Was Tauqeer Zia better than Ijaz Butt...if yes...then you should be right...some ISI guys take the control...because its folks sport...and the folks should not be disappointed again and again and again...lol

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I think he has reached UK to take over the responsibilities of Dr. Imran farooq. I'm sure the urgent call from bhai left him no option but to leave dubai asap.

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^^ now that is the best most heart easing explanation that any one could even come up with

:chai:

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Missing act might cost Haider dear

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Karachi: Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider’s abrupt decision to leave the team hotel in Dubai without informing anyone hours before the fifth and final ODI against South Africa, could have an adverse effect on his international cricket career.

“His actions fall under the code of conduct and he will face an inquiry on return,” said PCB’s legal advisor, Tafazzul Rizvi.

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Rizvi, however, felt that something was wrong somewhere that led to the wicketkeeper leaving the team hotel suddenly.

“Zulqarnain’s actions are totally surprising and strange and I am wondering what could have happened. To take such a big step… we will find out what the reasons were,” Rizvi said.

Hyder is believed to have received threatening messages on his mobile after he shone in the fourth one-day international in which he hit the winning runs

“Leaving Pakistan cricket because got bad messages to lose the match in last game,” the last update on Hyder’s Facebook account read.

Hyder’s elder brother, Reza confirmed that the keeper had been receiving threatening messages from an unknown person.

Former Pakistan players like Abdul Qadir, Sarfaraz Nawaz and Basit Ali expressed surprise at Haider’s act.

“It is strange the way he acted. I think being a new player maybe he got scared by the threats, but this is nothing new for professional players. Most of us have got threats at some time to do this and that but you just ignore them,” Ali said.

Qadir had his own take on the whole incident. “What is strange to me is that Zulqarnain is not a frontline or match-winning player, so why threaten him. I think he should have informed the team management about the threats instead of taking such an extreme step,” the former leg spinner said.

Sarfaraz claimed that the keeper was making up a story to seek political asylum in the United Kingdom. “Why chose to go to the UK if you are getting threats. He should have instead returned to Pakistan,” Sarfaraz said.

Former PCB chairman, Tauqir Zia also expressed doubts about claims made by Hyder. "He is not a match-winner, not someone who can single handedly change the course of a match. Why should he be threatened.

“It makes no sense to me and the PCB should hold a proper inquiry into this and find out if the youngster did report anything to the management, and if not, then why didn’t he trust the management,” Zia said.

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An old piece, however GEO / Kamran Khan are the usual pot stirrers in action

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GEO NEWS UPDATE - Also saw him on another news clip walking thru London airport…

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So the UK airport immigration authorities have Allowed Zulqarnain entry into UK under condition of hiring an attorney.

Zulqi - Tell us why you ran away !!!

:konfused:

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I think there may be a masala story coming up soon. Just like salman butt vows now that he's nothing to do with the cheating controversies or may be the story actress veena malik put up in media about asif and fellows.

Talking about media, it is portraying Zulfi as a possible hero who stood in front of cricket mafia and didnt surrender. But they are wrong. He did actually surrender and flew away for hidden reasons.

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A wicket keeper is a key position. For 50 overs, he is behind the stumps, waiting for that snick. So I disagree. Its strange how he does not trust anyone in team management to even enlighten them on the topic.

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Another story by Guardian portraying Zulqarnain haider as a hero…

Zulqarnain Haider reveals vortex which traps Pakistan’s young blades

Players are pawns in a game in which a gift becomes a gateway to entrapment and festering corruption

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Zulqarnain Haider fled to London from Dubai after allegedly receiving threats for not throwing a one-day game against South Africa. Photograph: Jon Hrusa/EPA When Zulqarnain Haider took his passport and his bags, quietly shut the door on his hotel room and left to catch an early flight from Abu Dhabi to London, he may have begun the process by which there can be a greater understanding of the turmoil that underpins Pakistan cricket.
A couple of days earlier Haider had held together the back end of the Pakistan innings and taken them to another thrilling win in their series against South Africa, the second such in four matches, that meant the rubber was still alive going into today’s final match, which was won by South Africa.
Apparently, if Haider is to be believed, it was not meant to be like that. Pakistan were supposed to lose and did not: Haider was the young man who made that so and now was being seen as culpable. He felt vulnerable. So he asked for protection for his family in Lahore, announced his intentions, or at least the motivation for his actions, on Facebook and hightailed it, his team management none the wiser until he failed to show up for the match.
Thus was started the latest chapter in the saga of fixing that has blighted the game in Pakistan for the last two or three decades, anecdotally at first before being shown to have rather more substance than many wanted to believe.
Haider is just the latest of what must be numerous young Pakistan cricketers who have been complicit in, an observer of or unwilling dissident (as Haider would seem to be) to illegal practices in international cricket matches.
Last summer, of course, came the sting. The News of the World, with its well-practised subterfuge, gained evidence that the bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif would deliberately bowl no-balls specifically to order, something that indeed happened.
The bowlers and the captain, Salman Butt, were suspended pending investigations by the Metropolitan police, the Pakistan Cricket Board and the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit. That situation pertains.
Yet, clear-cut as it may have seemed, the case against those three may not be quite so straightforward. It is highly likely that, beyond the three being givenmoney by the fixer caught in the sting, Mazhar Majeed, a fellow acting as agent for Butt, there was no financial gain to anyone from their action, certainly not bookmakers.
Instead it has all the appearances of someone, Majeed, flexing his muscle, showing what he could do, demonstrating the kind of control he might be able to exert for a price. This was a sampler. And just as further advertisement for his clout, he rang and woke Amir, called him “****er” and then told him that whatever it was he had called for could wait. In other words Amir and Asif were dancing to someone else’s tune.
Now you might reasonably ask why, if they had any sense of wrongdoing, they had not simply refused to get involved. Indeed, a further question might be, and almost certainly has been, whether this was not the first time they had done such a thing and, if not, whether previously it had carried implications beyond a bit of master-servant feudalism.
To try to answer this, we need to think about the process by which a young cricketer can get involved in the first place and then sucked ever deeper into the mire. Pakistan cricketers, while not paid the stratospheric sums of their Indian counterparts, are nonetheless feted. They receive largesse and gifts – expensive gifts (Javed Miandad once received a golden, jewel-encrusted sword for hitting a last-ball winning six in a match against India) – as tokens of esteem.
“You remember me,” they will be told sometime in the future, “I gave you a Rolex. How do you think the team will do? What will be the side?” Harmless enough. But then the suggestions become less conversational, more specific. “We would like you to bowl a wide in the first over of the second match.”
The player does not want to get involved but he is told that already he is and that, unless he complies, they will blow the whistle. Or worse, there will be violence threatened, not against him, but his family. “We won’t break your legs, we will break those of your sister.”
If you think this is an exaggeration, hyperbole, then think again. Not all attempts at match- or spot-fixing, perhaps few, involve massive personal gain for the perpetrators or greed on their part. The rewards are for others, the players pawns in the game. They are in a vortex from which they cannot escape. But perhaps Zulqarnain has evaded it and, if so, he is already a brave lad who has defied some extremely nasty people.
If, as undoubtedly he will be asked to do, he tells a full and frank story to the ACSU, he will be yet braver, for his card will be doubly marked. Not many would want to be in his shoes.

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watched kashif Abbasi programme on ARY and he had Qadir, Baist and Sarfraz on the programme and they were all surprised by haider's action. maybe he did it because he was scared but isn't it convenient that he had a one month visa to London already in his passport. was it a coincidence or was it preplanned?

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surprised but not shocked... given what has been happening in the last few months.

While I don't agree with the way Zulfi just packed up his stuff and let WITHOUT TELLING ANYBODY and abandoning the team... he obviously does not trust any of the senior players or the management. So I sort of do feel bad for him. Young guy doing well and has to put up with harassments and death threats from bookies. It's really sad that he did not even feel up for telling any senior players? Koi bharosa nai.. ko ummeed nahin.. Sure it's a little immature but fk he's a very young player and new to the team he probably freaked out cuz of all the threats and bounced..

Meanwhile the comedy that is Pak cricket continues. I know you all will hate me or diss at me for saying this.. because I'm Indian.. but I am definite lots of Pakistanis feel the same... that this has just become a cheap comedy series.. We finally had a very good series without much drama and this sht happens on the morning of the final.

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I really don't understand or believe 'Zulqi' excuses because there is more ,,much more and something deep
going on.

Why did 'Geo reporter' had to interview Lograt Haroon over this disappearing issue ? Why Lograt ?
I'm very very upset even to see his face on such issues,,,, Idiot!

Currently Zulqi is in London in a hotel prepaid his 2 day stay because thats the money he had,,,,

Why was he given his passport by PCB officials mainly Intikhab Alam without much fuss ?
How did he get tickets (Prearranged I guess) for London?
How was he allowed to board the flight from DXB (usualy they check destination Visa first) ?

I'm assuming Zulqi already had UK multiple Visa on his passport from the previous UK tour
And he had second thoughts about claiming 'Political Asylum' in UK which he previously postponed due to Pakistan's Spot Fixing Scandal and hyped up media at that time,,,

I Think Zulqi's actions are his personal actions and he's using threats and other match fixing allegations as an excuse for the sole purpose of 'Political Asylum in UK' !

But there are still so many 'If and why' here ,,,,Lets See

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it was little slow and boring lately....chalo shukar ha...now we will have some fun...thank you pakistani team....

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Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, who disappeared from Dubai on Monday, had appeared in a hotel at Heathrow airport later on the day.

Talking to Geo News, Zulqarnain said he could not compromise dignity of his dear motherland so he decided to leave the national cricket team.
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He said that he was receiving life threats in response to his match-winning performance in fourth ODI against South Africa and according to him, someone threatened him to fix 5th ODI through threatening SMS on his cell number.**

He, however, ruled out blaming any player being behind the threats, responding to a question that if he might want to name any player of the team.

“I was forced to starving after demise of my mother so I can again face such tough situation,” he revealed.

Hero of the fourth ODI against South Africa in Dubai, Zulqarnain Haider said, he believed in Allah, adding that Pakistan was his dear motherland and he could never sell out her dignity.

He dismissed revealing exact location of his whereabouts, saying: “I can assure you that I am safe and sound, not arrested but cannot tell where I am hiding for sake of protection of my life.”

Immigration officials in UK proved kind to me and proposed me to hire services of a counselor but I have yet to reach a decision, he said.

However, he was short of money to take legal advice or hire services of a lawyer, according to him. He was not sure of his future.

He looked worried about his family, saying that his family too received threats so he wanted his family to join him in London soon.

Zulqarnain also appealed to government for provision of protection to his family back in Pakistan.