Karachi, July 10:
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his capacity as patron-in-chief of the PCB has removed Najam Sethi as chairman and dissolved the management committee while appointing a ad-hoc Chairman and election commissioner to hold elections in the board in 30 days time.
The Attorney General of Pakistan, Salman Butt told a two-member bench of the Supreme Court today in Islamabad that Justice (retd) Jamshad Ali Shah has been appointed as acting Chairman and chief election commissioner to hold elections for the Chairman’s position in 30 days time.
“The government will also be issuing notification for the new constitution of the board under which the elections will held,” Butt said.
Justice Jamshad will be assisted by a governing board that includes Sethi and Iqbal Umar but the lawyer for petitioner Zaka Ashraf, who was replaced as chairman by Sethi in February, raised objection to the presence of Sethi on the board.
“We don’t want Sethi in this interim set-up and someone else should be appointed in his place by the Prime Minister,” Imtiaz Siddiqui said.
The Attorney General has sought one-day’s time from the court to brief the PM and see if an alternate can be named.
These developments took place at the hearing of the SC bench which is looking into petitions filed separately by the ministry of inter provincial coodination (which looks after sports in Pakistan) and the PCB against the reinstatement of Ashraf as Chairman by the Islamabad High Court and counter petitions filed by Ashraf against Sethi and the government order in February.
The two-member bench observed that while it wanted a quick disposal of the case and cricket in Pakistan to be run smoothly and without favoritism or nepotism it would observe to see the new constitution and process of elections for the Chairman’s post. (PTI)
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