LAHORE, June 26: All members of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports including the treasury benches as well as the opposition have passed a unanimous resolution, urging an immediate implementation of the constitution in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), sources told Dawn on Tuesday.
The standing committee which met at Islamabad on Tuesday and had summoned the PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf to give answers of various questions, agreed that long standing ad hocism in the PCB was the root cause of all the ills, thus should be dispensed with immediately. The PCB chairman did not attend the meeting as he is in England for the ICC meeting. One of PCB’s directors Nadeem Akram attended the meeting on chairman’s behalf.
Senator Enver Baig moved the resolution which was endorsed by all including state minister Tariq Azeem, the sources said. The standing committee also asked for the original copy of the president's order under which the ad hoc was imposed in 1999.
The committee members also `expressed their concern that since the PCB authorities had been claiming the new draft of the constitution was with the federal law department, the federal Attorney General in a press report had disclosed that it was not in their record.
The PCB director also informed the standing committee that the total staff strength of the board was 352. Though the standing committee had also asked for the exact details of salaries of their staff, the PCB could only provide the names of staff and their grade. The chairman of the standing committee Chaudhary Zafar Iqbal instructed the PCB to also provide the details of salaries in the next meeting.
The director also informed the committee that the PCB had sacked 27 employees earlier this year, but it had recruited 76 more from the same date.
Similarly, the PCB director also informed the standing committee that chairman of the national selection committee Salahuddin Ahmed was getting Rs200,000 as salary. He is also entitled to get Rs2,000 as daily allowance, business class air-ticket, besides Rs10,000 as cell phone calling charges.
Two members of the selection committee Shafqat Rana and Saleem Jaffar are getting Rs150,000 each as salary besides Rs2,000 as daily allowance, Rs5,000 for cell phone and business class air traveling.
The director also informed the committee that P.J.Mir was paid £11,900 for his one-month duty as media manager of Pakistan team for the 2007 World Cup held in West Indies.