Source: Buzz Vines

Pakistan will launch its edition of an international Twenty20 competition in 2009 featuring foreign players and six franchised teams.
After Indian Cricket League and Indian Premier League, Pakistan Cricket Board has gone on to start their own premier league starting from next year, and have asked for franchises from the city and regional teams.
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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Shoaib Akhtar’s five-year ban was lifted for one month on Sunday, allowing the Pakistan paceman to play in the lucrative Indian Premier League.
Akhtar’s lawyers asked a Pakistan Cricket Board tribunal to temporarily lift the ban, because the IPL was refusing to allow him to take part in its competition while […]

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Source: Guardian
‘Shoaib can play anywhere in the world outside Pakistan’
The Pakistan Cricket Board has rejected Shoaib Akhtar’s appeal against the five-year ban imposed on him for repeated disciplinary breaches, but confirmed that he is free to resume his career overseas. The decision means Shoaib is free to compete in the Indian Premier League while remaining […]

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