Karachi: Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider will return home from London and withdraw his application seeking asylum status from the British Home Office following his allegations of death threats from a match fixer.
Haider told Geo News from London on Sunday that he would return later this week after he held talks with Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malek, and was given assurances about his security.
Haider fled the team hotel in Dubai last November during a one-day series with South Africa, saying after reaching London that he had received death threats from an unidentified person who wanted him to fix matches in the one-day series.
Haider later applied for asylum with the Home Office but on Sunday said he would despatch a letter to the British Home Secretary (interior minister) seeking withdrawal of the application.
Good meeting
"My meeting with the [Pakistan] interior minister was very good and he assured me that if I return to Pakistan, I and my family would be provided complete security," Haider told Geo News.