(CNN) -- Zakir Khan -- the director of cricket operations for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) -- told CNN that he is keen to speak to wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider about his reported retirement.
According to media reports, 24-year-old Haider retired from international cricket on Tuesday morning after leaving the Pakistan team hotel in Dubai without notice on Monday and flying to London where he was pictured arriving at Heathrow.
Pakistan were playing South Africa in a one-day series in the Middle East, where Haider was allegedly threatened for not helping to fix matches before leaving.
Khan said: "We are waiting for [confirmation] to come through to us, we have not heard anything from him in person [regarding his retirement] though there is a lot of media-related statements.
"We have been trying to get through to him, to get hold of his family but nobody can give us satisfactory information about his whereabouts. It's a complete surprise what he has done at the moment".
The PCB confirmed Haider requested his passport on Sunday night and was then nowhere to be found the following morning, after scoring the winning runs to help Pakistan beat South Africa in the fourth ODI on November 5.
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