Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday approved the appointment of Najam Sethi as the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
According to sources that notification regarding the change in the PCB board of governors will be issued later in the day.
According to sources, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will announce four notifications: the cessation of the cricket board’s 2019 constitution; the restoration of the 2014 constitution; the termination of the two PCB governing body nominees for chairmanship under the 2019 constitution; and the announcement of the creation of an interim “set up” to handle the current board.
The interim selection committee will be formed to announce the squad for the upcoming series against New Zealand starting from December 26, they say.
This project follows the removal of Ramiz Raja as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) by the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) earlier today.
In replacement of Asad Ali Khan and Ramiz Raja, the IPC has sent a summary to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that includes the names of Najam Sethi and Shakil Sheikh as the new PCB Governing Board members.
It is worth mentioning here that Ramiz Raja was appointed as PCB chairman by the former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on September 13, 2021.
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Najam, 73, first served as chairman in 2013 but had to fight a legal battle with Chaudhry Muhammad Zaka Ashraf. He returned to charge in 2014 but Shahryar Khan was named chairman and Sethi was given charge of the powerful executive committee.
He was re-elected as board chairman in August 2017, but a year later, after EX PM Imran Khan became prime minister, he resigned. EX PM Imran Khan named Ehsan Mani, the former ICC President, as his replacement.
