ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was on Thursday accused of unnecessarily delaying bringing to light its new constitution as its officials came face to face with the senate standing committee on sports for the fourth time in almost seven months.

As it was in the past meetings, Senator Muhammad Enver Baig stood out with his questioning of ad hoc PCB boss Shahryar M. Khan in a meeting that also saw the presence for the first time of another board official, Abbas Zaidi.

While Senator Kamil Ali Agha expressed satisfaction over PCB's response to his questionnaire given to them during the last meeting, there was no stopping Enver.

"How long are we going to go on like this because we are making no headway," Enver said angrily after it was revealed that there was going to be further delay in the constitution seeing light of the day.

Shaharyar also apologised for the delay in framing of the new constitution.

"It was my honest expectation that the constitution committee would be able to wind up its work by the end of October but some of its members are busy people and have not been able to spare enough time."

Shaharyar had first given an August date for completion of the constitution but then sought time till October end from the senate committee which is headed by Senator Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry.

The PCB constitution committee is led by Justice Karamat Bindhari, who Shaharyar said wanted the document to be really a good one.

Shaharyar who at first was reluctant to give a cut off date for completion of the constitution, however agreed to do so on Enver's insistence. "I will do so after consulting Justice Bindhari and let the committee know of the exact date by Dec 27."

He also agreed to a suggestion from Senator Saeed Siddiqui that if the constitution committee did not have time, two prominent lawyers be hired to do the job. Enver said that it was the task of the PCB chairman to ensure the constitution was completed on time and "dilly-dallying" on the matter was uncalled for.

The controversial subject of Pakistan's English coach Bob Woolmer's contract also came up for discussion with both Senators Zafar and Enver saying the contractual details submitted to the committee did not hold good for the document was not signed.

"You cannot take us for a ride by providing us copies of the contract on a piece of paper with no signatures," Enver said. "It is not a valid document and we have to have a singed copy of the contract."

But the PCB chairman thought if all the details of the actual contract were presented to the committee, there was a chance of the document being leaked to the press. "We have to protect its confidentiality." He, however agreed to have Enver have a look at the actual copy.

Some details of the contracts of Woolmer, trainer Murray Stevenson and physio Darryn Lifson, both from South Africa, were dispatched to the senate committee the other day.

According to those papers, Woolmer is drawing an annual salary of 80,000 pounds with a string of bonuses up for grabs if his team does well. Lifson is 36,000 pound-a-year man while Stevenson has a yearly salary of 30,000 pounds.

Besides these hefty salaries, the "foreign trio" also enjoys other perks and privileges like daily allowances in US dollars when on tour besides five-star accommodation.

Shaharyar said that payments were made individually to these team officials and not through any company and pointed out that the board was paying former coach Javed Miandad almost the same kind of money as Woolmer. Miandad, however, had rejected PCB's claims that his renumerations were the same as paid to Woolmer.

He explained that the salary of Woolmer matched the pay scales of foreign coaches in the sub-continent.

The audit report for the home series with India held in March- April and PCB's free-ticket distribution during those months were the two other subjects that were discussed.

The committee was told by Shaharyar that the audit had been completed and that the PCB now had to send its comments on it to the company. "We should have a final document shortly."

Former treasurer of PCB, Muhammad Naeem, at loggerheads with the Board, called for a comprehensive list of those who were the beneficiaries of free tickets.

He reiterated that a list of "administrative partners" to whom the tickets were given be provided along with the exact numbers so that the partners could confirm or deny the deal.

Naeem, who resigned in May after alleging that there had been widespread corruption in context to the India series, suggested that the auditors verify PCB's claim they had given away tickets worth Rs 86 lakh under "contractual obligations".

The next meeting of the committee is to take place in Lahore when the audit report and the constitution will be discussed.