Asif likely to be deported next week

Detained Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif is likely to be deported back home next week after the Attorney General in Dubai gives a final verdict on the bowler by June 16.

"The Attorney General is scheduled to hear the prosecution`s findings into the case on Sunday and the feelers we have got is that he will pass an order to deport Asif by Monday," a well informed Pakistan Cricket Board source said.


Although PCB officials today confirmed that authorities in Dubai had extended Asif`s detention to June 22 but they said this was purely because of legal requirements and law of the land. The source said authorities had got Asif`s detention extended since the law in Dubai bars authorities from detaining a suspect for more then 14 days and an extension was needed in case more investigations had to carried out.

Asif has been in detention since June 1 after being allegedly caught with contraband drugs at Dubai airport. Laboratory tests later confirmed the substance found on him was hashish.