PCB’s New Management Committee Names Zaka Ashraf as Chairman
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s federal government has formed a new management committee for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and appointed Zaka Ashraf as its chairman, according to a summary circulated on Wednesday.
The 10-member committee, with a tenure of four months, has been officially approved by the government. In addition, Mahmood Iqbal has been appointed as the new chief election commissioner, replacing Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana.
The inaugural meeting of the committee is scheduled to take place in Lahore on Thursday.
The members of the committee are as follows: Zaka Ashraf (chairman), Kaleem Ullah Khan, Ashfaq Akhtar, Musaddiq Islam, Azmat Parvez, Zaheer Abbas, Khurram Karim Somroo, Khuwaja Nadeem, Mustafa Ramday, and Zulfiqar Malik.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has lifted the stay order on the election for the PCB chairman, which was initially scheduled for June 27 at the PCB headquarters in Lahore. The election was postponed due to stay orders issued by various courts across the country, including the Balochistan High Court.
It should be noted that on June 27, the LHC suspended the notification of the Board of Governors (BoG) and stayed the election of the PCB chairman. The court has issued notices to the federal government, the cricket board’s election commissioner, and others.
Malik Zulfiqar filed a petition stating that Chief Election Commissioner Shahzad Farooq Rana made unauthorized changes to the list of the BoGs, which had been finalized by the interim management committee on June 20. The petition argued that the actions of the chief election commissioner were illegal.
