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Shoaib faces hearing

REUTERS/BBC, Karachi
Strike bowler Shoaib Akhtar is to appear before a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) disciplinary committee on Thursday, two days before the squad to tour India is selected.
Shoaib has been charged with breaching his contract by visiting nightclubs while on tour in Australia at the start of the year, giving press statements without permission and delaying his return to Pakistan despite suffering a hamstring injury.
He has denied the charges and claims photos of him apparently taken at a party in Sydney were faked.
Justice Amir Alam Khan, heading the disciplinary committee that will sit in Lahore, said on Tuesday that a report would be produced within 24 hours. Two other members on the panel are Maqbool Elahi Malik and Abdul Salam Khawar, both members of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
The Pakistan selectors meet on Saturday to announce the 16-man squad for India. The tour consists of three Tests and five one-day internationals, with the first Test starting early next month.
Shoaib's hamstring is still a concern and could yet rule him out of the trip. The selectors, involved in a string of rows with the player over his fitness during the past year, had wanted him to play in a domestic match before the tour party was chosen but he opted for more rest.
"All the bowlers who have fitness problems will go through a fitness test on Friday to be supervised by the team's trainer and physiotherapist. Anyone not clearing the tests will not be considered," PCB director Abbas Zaidi told Reuters.
Shoaib has taken 144 Test and 186 one-day international wickets and has been Pakistan's leading bowler since the retirements of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis in 2003.
"I am looking forward to touring India," he said. "I'm resting the hamstring strain."
He, however, is said to be struggling to shake off the injury which has put his place for the tour across the border in doubt.
"Shoaib has told me he's still
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carrying a niggle and needs time to recover," chief selector Wasim Bari said.
"I have conveyed to him that Pakistan needs a fully fit Shoaib for the important tour of India."
Shoaib was told to play in a four-day domestic match to assess his fitness but he refused to play on Monday.
Bari added: "It's his own decision not to play, (but) it's for his own good that he attains full fitness through a match because his reputation as the spearhead is at stake."
Mohammad Sami also came home early from Australia after injuring his heel and back, while fellow paceman Mohammad Khalil is recovering from a shoulder injury suffered in the VB Series earlier this month.
Two other pace bowlers, Shabbir Ahmed (knee) and Umar Gul (back) have already been ruled out.