PCB asked to submit copy of treasurer's resignation
By Our Sports Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The Senate Standing Committee on Sports is to ask the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to submit a copy of the controversial resignation of its treasurer Muhammad Naeem.
Naeem who resigned on May 13 after reportedly levelling allegations of serious charges against the officials of PCB in context of the recent Pakistan-India series, will also be asked to appear before the committee.
Senator Enver Baig has put in a request to the committee's secretary to have Naeem come over to Islamabad for the Aug 10 meeting in which other top officials of the PCB have also been summoned.
"Mr. Naeem's resignation is of prime importance and we want to know why the PCB chairman has not acted on it," said the vocal Enver. The PCB boss Shahryar M. Khan had in the last meeting of the Senate body on July 9 reluctantly admitted that Naeem had resigned but said he had taken no action.
The officials of the PCB have been put in a tight spot by the senators who are probing the affairs of the organisation and the reasons for Pakistan's defeat to India at home in March-April.
The Senate Standing Committee has met twice since beginning its probe on May 29 and the forthcoming meeting is likely to be the last.
