IHC bars Najam Sethi to work as PCB chairman

IHC bars Najam Sethi to work as PCB chairman. Islamabad High Court (IHC) has heard the case against the appointment of Najam Sethi as the Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). During the hearing the justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui barred Najam Sethi to continue to perform his duties as chairman PCB till the election of a new Chairman. Najam Sethi, who is also a Senior journalist, was appointed by the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as head of PCB’s adhoc committee. The petition was filed by Ahmed Nawaz Khan who stated in his petition that formation of an action adhoc body is violation of court orders.
The IHC has also suspended the interim management committee created to look into the PCB affairs and other committee members to file their replies by the end of next month.
The IHC also appointed the Justice(r) Munir Shaikh as chairman election committee to control the election of the chairman PCB. The court has decided to hold the election next month, November.
On the other hand the Secretary PCB will be in-charge of the PCB's affairs until the elections are held.

Mr. Ashraf Stopped to participate in PCB affairs after IHC order

The chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Zaka Ashraf had stopped working after his suspension order by the Islamabad High Court.Mr. Ashraf has stopped working as the chairman PCB till the next hearing on 13^th June. He was away from the PCB affairs and the Annual General Meeting of PCB, which Ashraf to chair in Karachi, has been postponed by the Board of Governors (BoG). They also postponed the Board of Governors meeting until further
notice.

Mr. Zaka Ashraf said that the meeting was postponed by the BoG and he was no the part of it due to the court order. He added that the legislators will observe the case and decide the further action.
On the other hand, PCB legal advisor, Tafazzul Rizvi also flew down to Karachi to meet with Mr. Ashraf and other board members to discuss the future course of action. Mr. Rizvi said that they are trying to defend the case by providing the full facts to the honorable court in their response and will try to get an earlier date of hearing.Read More

PCB declared squad for ICC Champions Trophy, dropped Afridi, Gul, Akmal

The ICC Champions Trophy 2013 is slated to begin from 6^th June and PCB declared the 15 member squad. PCB dropped the names of Shahid Afraidi, Umar Gul and Umar Akmal form the Champion Trophy. Afridi was dropped due to his bad performance in the past year.The squad was declared by chief selector, Iqbal Qasim on Monday after getting the chairman PCB approval. The selection committee made some changes in selecting the squad for Champion Trophy.

The selected members of the squad include : Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal, Misbah ul Haq (capt), Shoaib Malik, Asad Shafiq, Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Asad Ali, Wahab Riaz, Umar Amin, Abdur Rehman, Ehsan Adil. Read More