Zulqarnain Haider says government will be responsible if he is killed – Cricket news
Pakistan’s runaway wicketkeeper, Zulqarnain Haider, has said that he came back to Pakistan only after getting security assurances from the government of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and if anything happens to him then the government would be responsible.
Haider generated a huge controversy for Pakistan last year when he decided to run away from Dubai on the morning of the last match of a limited overs series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757. He claimed that he had received death threats from bookmakers to underperform
against the Proteas.
The controversial wicketkeeper reached back home on Monday and is currently at a secret location in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, along with his wife, two daughters and a younger brother.
Haider expressed fear and said that he might be killed and the Government of Pakistan would be responsible in such a scenario because the government officials wanted him to come back to the country. Zulqarnain further added that he is not allowed to go out
to public places and neither can he disclose his location to anyone else.
Zulqarnain said, "I fear for my life. I returned to Pakistan on government's advice and if I am killed, the government would be responsible. I am not allowed to go out in public. I am not even allowed to disclose the location to my other family members.”
He also denied the rumours that he called Kamran Akmal’s father-in-law a bookmaker and said that he is surprised that Mohammad Iliyas, Akmal’s father-in-law, has decided to take a legal action against him.
"I wonder why and how the names of Kamran Akmal and his father-in-law Mohammad Iliyas came into picture. I never named them in public and wonder why Iliyas should drag me to court," he said.
A gang of bookmakers has been arrested from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sialkot-c842, which was supposedly behind the threats to Zulqarnain and the whole controversy has once again raised a lot of questions about the role of bookies in the ‘gentlemen’s game’. However, the lanky wicketkeeper
has many questions to answer before he resumes his cricketing career in his native country as he has been called mentally-ill by several former Test cricketers, as well as team officials.
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