April 24, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 17, 1429

LAHORE, April 23: Salman Naz, Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) senior general manager finance, has resigned from his post.

This is the second resignation in PCB’s finance department in the last six months, after Hasan Ahmed’s departure from the post of chief financial officer in December 2007.

When contacted, media director Mansoor Sohail confirmed the news to Dawn, while adding that Salman had received a better offer from somewhere else.

“We can’t stop a man from moving ahead in life, so we wish him well,” Mansoor said.

However, it is being said that Salman submitted his resignation in the backdrop of the last meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports over the recently raised issue at the National Assembly by the federal sports minister for providing wrong information about the salary of PCB’s Chief Operating Officer Shafqat Naghmi.

The sports minister raised an objection that the PCB had informed him that Shafqat was drawing a monthly salary of Rs38,000 from the board, whereas the actual amount is around Rs500,000 per month.

Interestingly, the record of Shafqat’s salary and that of three other key PCB officials is not on the payroll as the internal audit department of the board had also been searching for it.