LAHORE, May 22: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has issued a legal notice to the former secretary of the then Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan (BCCP) and former media advisor Col Rafi Nasim claiming damages worth Rs 50 million for tarnishing the reputation of PCB chairman by writing articles against him.
The respondent has been given a four-day deadline which lapsed on Thursday, to tender an apology or face the court of law.
When contacted by Dawn, Rafi said that he would face PCB in the court and would not tender an apology come what may.
Rafi explained that he had been writing in the newspapers for the last 40 years, and no one could claim anything against him as he wrote after doing extensive background research.
“In a court room in the presence of press reporters and cricket fans it will be wonderful to reveal some startling aspects of PCB functionaries which are not yet known to the nation,” Rafi claims.
PCB has accused Rafi of calling the PCB chairman a dictator, in an interview to the press, as well as holding the PCB chief responsible for not implementing the constitution of the board.
Rafi pointed out that he also took the charge as secretary of the BCCP with K.M Azhar as president in 1978, when an ad hoc was imposed. The body then framed and implemented the new constitution and also held elections of the associations in a short span of six to seven weeks.
That constitution remained in order for 18 years, he claimed. But the current PCB set up could not do both the basic job even after three and a half years, Rafi added.
