Sambrial : The Sambrial police Wednesday disclosed the names of eight accused involved in making threatening phone calls to Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider. Earlier, these names were being kept under secret.
The accused were identified as Sikandar Hayyat, Sarfraz Sheikh, Shahid Waheed , Muhammad Rizwan Gujjar, Ghulam Fareed Mayo, Aamir Ali Malik (Sambrial)and Sagheer Ahmed Bhatti (resident of Chak No. 62 Bahawalpur). SP(Investigation) Sialkot Nasir Muneef Qureshi told that the Sambrial police have also registered a case (No. 341/2011) under sections 13/20/65, 5/6/78, 216 and 489-B PPC against these accused. He said that the accused belonged to an international gang of bookies and claimed that the whole Pakistani cricket team was dancing to their tunes as well.Sialkot police had arrested these accused from a house in Sambrial city during the mid-night operation(very early in Wednesday morning) from some under ground and secret rooms of the house located at Alleywali locality of Sambrial city. Police also recovered as many as 250 telephone set, several satellite phone sets, a big quantity of illicit weapons and a big quantity of fake currency notes (in national and foreign currencies) as well.During the interrogation, the accused admitted having their strong links with international bookies. PPI