The PCB has told Shoaib Akhtar to forget about playing in next month's National T20 Championship unless he pays his fine.

The Board had imposed a heavy fine on the Pakistani pacer for indiscipline.

Confusion prevailed at the launching ceremony of the prestigious tournament when Shoaib's name was missing from the list of players from his region, Islamabad.

Later a PCB spokesman confirmed that Shoaib's name was submitted by the regional team as the 16th player of the side.

"They gave us a list of 16 players but in the slides only the names of 15 players were shown. That is why there was some confusion about whether Shoaib was part of the Islamabad side or not," Raza Rashid, the spokesman, said.

But he said as per the board's policy, Shoaib was required to first pay the fine of seven million rupees or get a ruling from the court against the fine before he can play in Pakistan's premier domestic event.

"The board's policy is very clear on this," he said.

Shoaib had a five-year ban imposed on him by PCB's disciplinary committee, which was subsequently reduced to 18 months by an appellate tribunal in June which heard his appeal against the ban for disciplinary violations.

But the tribunal, while reducing the ban, also asked him to pay the fine of seven million rupees.

Shoaib has filed a writ petition in the Lahore high court against the ban and fine but the court, while suspending the ban, have given no order on the payment of fine.