The PCB today threatened to sue the ICC if the players were found innocent even as the country's diplomats struck a discordant note with contradictory statements on the matter.

A day after Test captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir were suspended by the ICC and questioned by the Scotland Yard, PCB's legal advisor Talib Rizvi told media that if the trio was found innocent, the PCB would consider taking legal action against the ICC. He also emphasized that at the moment there was no criminal investigation going on against the three players, who were released without charge by the Scotland Yard after questioning in London.

Even as the controversy raged on, Pakistan's response appeared contradictory with its High Commissioner in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan continuing to attack the ICC for suspending the trio but the country's envoy to the United Nations Abdullah Haroon asking for punishment for those found guilty in the scandal. Launching yet another scathing attack on ICC, Hasan said by dropping Aamir from the list of its annual awards nominees, the body has strengthened his apprehensions that "there is a rat in the whole affair".