The Pakistan Cricket Board will be laying out a rehabilitation process for disgraced pacer Mohammad Aamir, who returned to Pakistan early Sunday morning after being released from jail in England.
Aamir was serving his prison sentence following his conviction in a spot-fixing incident late last year.
An official of the board revealed that a rehabilitation programme will be chalked out once he is called for a questioning.
It has been learnt that the International Cricket Council has asked the PCB to keep Aamir under its strict watch and formulate a process for his rehabilitation.
The promising young pacer got involved in the spot-fixing controversy, and was accused of having accepted money to bowl deliberate no-balls during a Test match against England at Lord’s in August 2010.
He was handed a 5-year ban from cricket by an ICC tribunal in February 2011, and after pleading guilty, was sentenced to 6 months in prison by the Southwark Crown Court in November 2011.
Following his 3-month-early release from the Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset earlier this month, and his return to Pakistan today, the PCB has confirmed that the 19-year-old will be interviewed by the board regarding the scandalous incident.
The ICC last week said that under the circumstances Aamir cannot go to the court of arbitration and for return to international cricket the only way for him is to undergo rehabilitation.
“Someone has to hold his rehabilitation, it maybe the ICC or the PCB but as he is a Pakistan cricketer he has to go through a process should be undertaken by the PCB.
“He has already admitted to the crime and for his return back to cricket he needed to talk in seminars on sports corruption during a specified period of time and then apply for pardon,” revealed an official of the board.
An ICC official said that the only body which could revive him back in cricket is the executive board of the ICC provided he is felt and understood to be a changed person and the board members come to a consensus and lift his ban. But he has to come out with a process of rehabilitation.
“We will be meeting with Amir soon. We want to have a face to face talk with him on different issues relating to the spot-fixing scandal,” Subhan Ahmad, PCB chief operating officer reported to have said.
“He is required to answer lots of questions because he want to go to the root cause of the issue,” Subhan added.
