Karachi: Dope-tainted pacer Mohammad Asif's miseries doesn't seem to end as the troubled Pakistani cricketer has now been slapped with a whopping bill as the legal costs for his release from detention in Dubai earlier this year.
Asif was detained for 19-days in Dubai for possession of a banned substance and the Pakistan cricket Board had hired the legal firm, Afridi and Angel, to represent the pacer in the case contested with the Dubai police.
"The issue now is that the previous PCB management have forwarded a bill sent by the Dubai based Afridi and Angel firm to Asif for payment," a well-informed PCB source told PTI.
"Asif has taken up the issue with the present management pointing out that no one ever consulted him or took his consent while hiring the services of the firm that time, so why should he pay for the legal costs," the source added.
The source said the bill was in thousands of dirhams and Asif, shaken by the demand, has told PCB that the representative of the Board Nadeem Akram, sent to assist him in Dubai in June, had bothered to visit him just once at the detention centre during his nearly two weeks stay in Dubai.
