Zulqarnain Haider uses Facebook as platform to update his case
While various international cricketers are using micro-blogging internet website Twitter to publicize their glee or anguish, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s runaway wicketkeeper has got Facebook to pass on messages he cannot speak in front of media. After
a cryptic message posted on his Facebook wall on Monday regarding his decision to leave the Pakistan cricket team citing death threats, Haider has once again used Facebook account to reveal the media approaches to know the inside story.
The threatened wicketkeeper has claimed that he has been approached by various media organizations with lucrative offers to give details of his decision to leave his team in Dubai but he has turned down the offers.
Haider, who was included in Pakistan’s squad for UAE tour after the regular wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal underwent an appendicitis operation, left the team hotel without informing the team management in the midst of the neutral venue series
against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 and flee to London citing death threats for declining offers to fix matches. The act of 24-year-old earned bad name to the already tainted Pakistan cricket.
The scared wicketkeeper, who has applied for asylum in UK, wrote on his Facebook wall that the British tabloid named the News of the World (NOTW) offered him big money for an interview but he spoke to them without taking even a single
penny.
"They offered me lots of money but I gave them the interview free of cost but what was surprising was that they said it would be half an hour thing but it went on for one and half hour," wrote the escapee on his facebook account. "They
were trying to ask hard questions but I told them they should talk to the ICC about it," added Haider.
It must be remembered that the NOTW is the same tabloid that had claimed spot-fixing charges against Pakistan’s suspended trio during the Lord’s Test and holds a bad repute of conspiring against Pakistan cricket.
Since his mysterious arrival at UK, Haider has talked to Wajid Shamsul http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990, the Pakistan high commissioner in UK, and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Both the high commissioner and the PCB chief have assured him legal assistance and
help.
Haider also claimed that the electronic media also offered him lots of money for interviews but he did not have any intention of taking money and even if he did, he would ask them to give it directly to a charity. "I don't want cash or
anything in my hands they will pay to charity," Zulqarnain Haider wrote.
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