Zaka named PCB body chairman

New management committee consists of 10 members

LAHORE:

Zaka Ashraf has been appointed as chairman of the newly formed Management Committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), serving a four-month term.

Ashraf, who was supported by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), will oversee the affairs of the PCB with the approval of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who holds the position of the patron in chief of the PCB.

The committee's establishment was authorized by the federal government through a summary circulated for approval.

The management committee consists of ten members, namely Kalim Ullah Khan, Ashafaq Akhtar, Mussadiq Islam, Azmat Parvez, Zaheer Abbas, Khurram Soomro, Khawaja Nadeem, Mustafa Ramday, and Zulfiqar Malik.

In addition to the committee formation, there has been a change in the position of the chief election commissioner. Mahmood Iqbal has replaced Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana as the new chief election commissioner.

The first meeting of the Management Committee was convened in Lahore while the issue of the election of PCB chairman and eligibility of Ashraf is pending in the courts.