No internal inquiry either has mandate or possesses courage to fix the responsibility of the disaster on the top man.
LAHORE: This is with reference to your editorial titled “Mercurial Pakistan at their worst” published on April 3.
I would like to point out that the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is an accomplished media expert and is at his best in public relations matters. Like any honourable person, the PCB chairman, instead of squarely taking over the responsibility of the Dhaka cricket disaster, has now announced an internal PCB inquiry.
It is a known fact that internal inquiries are mostly a facade, to cover up the glaring deficiencies of the senior people and to put the blame on certain scapegoats. Moreover, no internal inquiry either has the mandate or possesses the courage to fix the responsibility of the disaster on the top man of the organisation.
Under the circumstances, when the entire nation wants to know the raw facts about the debacle at Dhaka, the cricket crazy people of Pakistan expect and earnestly appeal to the prime minister and the chief patron of the PCB, Mian Nawaz Sharif, who always has a hand on the pulse of the nation and knows what people want, to immediately appoint an independent inquiry commission, headed by an honourable person like former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry or Justice Rana Bhagwandas, to find out the causes behind this cricket disaster, clearly fix the responsibilities of the failures on the persons concerned and suggest penalties/punishments/remedial measures, for the future betterment of the game and the improved working of the PCB, which currently is a sinking ship.
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2014.
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