Zaka Ashraf appointed as chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board administration committee
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By India Today Sports Desk: The Pakistan authorities has appointed a brand new ten-member administration committee headed by Zaka Ashraf for a interval of 4 months. The administration committee will maintain its first assembly in Lahore on Thursday.
The PCB board has ten members: 4 regional representatives, 4 service representatives, and two members nominated by the prime minister. These members will vote on who would be the subsequent chair. Historically, the prime minister’s appointment to the PCB board of governors determines who turns into a chair for a three-year time period, and Ashraf was the overwhelming favorite on the time.
The PCB elections for the subsequent board Chairman had been scheduled for June 27, however they had been postponed indefinitely as a consequence of a variety of writ petitions filed by former administration committee members in varied excessive courts throughout the nation difficult the composition of the governing board.
The PCB needed to postpone the election of Ashraf as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board final month after the formation of its board of governors – which elects the brand new chairman – was challenged in a number of courts throughout the nation.
The authorities changed PCB election commissioner Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana with advocate of the Supreme Court Mahmood Iqbal Khakwani. The election of the PCB’s new chairman was postponed on June 26 after the Baluchistan High Court accepted the petition of Gul Mohammad Kakar, a former member of the PCB administration committee, and scheduled a listening to for July 17.
Before dropping out of the race, former chairman Najam Sethi shaped a 10-member board of governors that included two direct nominees from PCB patron Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Acting chairman Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana then changed a number of members of the board of governors, prompting Kakar’s authorized motion.
Men from Dera Murad Jamali, Hyderabad, Larkana, and Bahawalpur changed representatives from bigger cities reminiscent of Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar.
