LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to get its new chairman on September 13 after the PCB Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sheikh Azmat Saeed called a special meeting of the board of governors (BOG).
The election commissioner made the decision in his first meeting at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday afternoon, in which he also directed to issue notices of the special meeting to the BoG members, a statement from the PCB said. Earlier on Friday morning, PCB Patron-in-Chief Prime Minister Imran Khan had nominated Asad Ali Khan and Ramiz Raja on the BoG for a three-year term while exercising his powers under clause 12(1) of the PCB Constitution. The other five members on the BoG are Aasim Wajid Jawad, Alia Zafar, Arif Saeed, and Javed Kurieshi — all independent members — and PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan, the statement added.
It is pertinent to mention here that Raja, speaking to Media a day earlier, had said he had been informed of becoming the new chairman of the board through a communique from the PM’s Office. “After being elected — as the new chairman — by the board of governors, I will address a press conference,” he said and expressed he had many plans for PCB. —agencies
