"The governing board has unanimously approved this plan
and also confirmed the wing should be headed by a retired army or police
official," Subhan Ahmad, the chief operating officer of the board told
Reuters.
Ahmad said PCB members were keen to avoid another corruption
scandal after players Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were sent to
jail by a London court last month for spot-fixing elements of a test match.
"We don't want a repeat of the spot-fixing scandal and
we want our players to be educated on the ethics and anti-corruption
regulations governing the sport," he said.
The spot-fixing scandal was the biggest crisis to hit
Pakistan cricket since foreign teams refused to tour Pakistan after militants
attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in March 2009, killing six policemen and
a van driver.
Five Sri Lankan players were also wounded in the attack.
Ahmad said the new security and vigilance wing would also be
responsible for working with international security experts and the International
Cricket Council (ICC) on security matters as Pakistan was keen to revive
international cricket in the country.
Pakistan have been playing "home" tests in the
Gulf region because of the security concerns in their own country.
Ahmad said officials of the new wing would travel with the
Pakistan team on foreign tours.
PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf also said that the board would ask
the government to pass a law making any sort of corruption in sport a serious
criminal offense.
