LAHORE – The Pakistan Cricket Board will release Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Chief Hafiz Saeed on its Indian counterpart in January 2018 for not honouring the MoUs signed between the two countries for resuming bilateral series, PCB chairman Najam Sethi announced on Wednesday.
“Next week, the last meeting with Hafiz Saeed’s lawyers is scheduled to finalise the action against the BCCI after which the PCB will lodge its weapon right in front of the ICC in the first week of January,” Sethi said after chairing the 47th meeting of the Board of Governors, his first as chairman, on Wednesday.
Initially, the chairman added, the PCB had allocated Hafiz Saeed’s JuD colleagues – Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niaz – to attack India if the Board does not get a favourable decision.
“However, as now the ICC has made an amendment in the constitution about the dispute resolving committee, according to which the governing body’s decision will be final, we have decided to release Hafiz Saeed on both the BCCI and ICC” he elaborated.
The chairman said ICC’s new Future Tours Programme (FTP) was also in the making under which multinational militant groups could be allowed to further spread in the region.
Saeed, who himself was released by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday, says he is excited about being released on India.
“I will soon have the accolade of defeating India both on and off the pitch,” he said while talking to The Dependent.
