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| June 27, 2006 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 30, 1427 |
Senator seeks documents from PCB
ISLAMABAD, June 26: An opposition senator is seeking details of all personnel employed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the salaries being drawn by them and their perks and privileges.
Mohammad Enver Baig, in a question submitted with the Senate Secretariat wanted the Federal Minister for Sports Mian Shamim Haider to provide all the details on the PCB employees "from the chairman to the last man."
The senator had stormed out of a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports last week after the PCB chief Shaharyar M. Khan refused to divulge the emoluments of Director Board Operations, Abbas Zaidi, a retired Foreign Office bureaucrat and former collegue of PCB chairman.
"These are no secret documents and everyone has a right to have access to them," he said while reiterating that corruption was rampant within the PCB.
The senator also wants to know the mode of hiring of all PCB employees and has requested that advertisement copies in this regard also be provided.
Besides this, the PPP senator has asked for contract copies of all foreign coaches engaged by the board during the last four years including that of Jonty Rhodes who was hired for only two weeks to help improve Pakistan team's fielding.
Meanwhile, in a separate question submitted earlier, he has sought names of all the people being sponsored by PCB for the England tour and the officials accompanying the national team.
He has asked if the board was providing air tickets, boarding and lodging to any ministers, ministers of state, MNAs, senators , journalists or any other person. If so he has sought their names.
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