May 11, 2007	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 23, 1428

LAHORE, May 10: The Pakistan Cricket Board has not adhered to the recommendations of a renowned human resources company that evaluated its staff last year while the sacking of eleven officials last month was also not in line with the instructions of the auditors, Dawn learnt on Thursday.

The PCB had initially fired some 80 employees but later restored the services of 69 lower-grade ones on humanitarian grounds while eleven of them stayed terminated which included Col. (retd.) Pervez, Nazir Ahmed, Major (retd.) Javed Manj, Major (retd.) Ahmad Anwar, Yar Mohammad Solangi, Khalil-ur-Rehman, Ansar Ahmed, Razaullah Khan, Mahmood Abdullah, Naved Iqbal Cheema and Raza Khan.

The PCB had hired the services of the company last year to guide it regarding the required staff strength and their abilities to run the board in a more effective way.

A two-member team from the company comprising Bilal Bukhari and Huzafa interviewed all members of the PCB staff to assess their capabilities. Later, the audit team submitted the recommendations, a copy of which was obtained by Dawn recently.

According to the report, Col. (retd.) Pervez, who was working as General Manager special task, was recommended to also be handed over the task of GM Development for his fine administrative abilities.

While there are no remarks in the report for sacked Major (retd.) Ahmad Anwar, names of other officials such as Nazir Ahmed, Yar Mohammad Solangi, Khalil-ur-Rehman, Ansar Ahmed, Razaullah Khan and Mehmood Abdullah, are not even mentioned in the report.

When contacted, the PCB chief operating officer Shafqat Naghmi told Dawn that it was another report of the company that was implemented and not the one that was in Dawn’s possession.

"The report with Dawn was prepared by Bilal Bukhari, who later resigned and the PCB sought another report to implement right away," clarified Naghmi. He said Bukhari had also regretted the leakage of his report to the media in a letter to the board. "In a letter to

PCB, Bilal Bukhari also admitted that the report is based on his own analysis and the company had no link with it," Naghmi said.

According to Bukhari's report various 'unsuitable' employees are still working with the PCB. Naghmi, however, said the decision to sack the employees was not taken entirely upon the recommendations of the audit company and the PCB also had its own considerations on the move.

However, there is no record that to prepare another report the company had designated another team to interview the staff. Therefore, it seems another report was prepared on personal liking and disliking, ignoring the original one.