- By Ankit Bisht
- Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:31 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
JE Sports Desk: Zaka Ashraf on Thursday morning assumed charge as the Chair of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Management Committee. Pakistan government has appointed a 10-member committee for a period of four months which held its first meeting on Thursday.
Other members of the committee include Kalim Ullah Khan, Ashfaq Akhtar, Muhammad Mussadiq Islam, Azmat Pervez, Zaheer Abbas, Khurram Karim Somroo, Khawaja Nadeem, Mustafa Ramday ASC, and Zulfiqar Malik.
Zaka Ashraf assumes charge as Chair of PCB Management Committee pic.twitter.com/G0dvwMmfG2
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Ashraf was favourite to become chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board last month but the PCB had to postpone that election after the formation of its board of governors — which elects the new chairman — was challenged in multiple courts around the country.
The government has removed PCB election commissioner Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana and appointed advocate supreme court Mahmood Iqbal Khakwani in his place.
The PCB election of its new chairman was postponed on June 26 after Baluchistan High Court accepted the petition of Gul Mohammad Kakar, a former member of the PCB management committee, and set a hearing for July 17.
Before former chairman Najam Sethi dropped out of the election, he formed a 10-member board of governors that also included two direct nominees from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the PCB patron.
Acting chairman Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana then changed several of the board of governors, prompting Kakar's court challenge. Representatives of bigger cities such as Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Peshawar were replaced by men from smaller cities such as Dera Murad Jamali, Hyderabad, Larkana and Bahawalpur.
(With agency inputs)