Butt’s removal recommended

The committee has sent a recommendation for removal of PCB chairman Ijaz Butt after he failed to clear charges.


Express August 20, 2010

KARACHI: The Senate Standing Committee on Privileges has sent a recommendation for the removal of Ijaz Butt after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman failed to clear himself charges made against him.

Butt was summoned by the committee in a meeting in Islamabad to explain his remarks against senators where he questioned the credibility of some senators and accused them for using their influence in the wrong way.

“Butt failed to clear himself - in fact he was in no mood to clear things out with the committee after which we had no choice but to recommend his removal,” the privileges committee chairman Tahir Mashadi told The Express Tribune.

Mashadi said he contacted the sports ministry through which the recommendation of Butt’s removal will be sent to President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the PCB’s Patron-in-Chief.

“We have sent our recommendation to the sports ministry and will also submit our report in the senate meeting next month after Eid,” informed Mashadi. “Butt must go now as nobody wants him, and cricket in our country has been negatively affected under him,” said the senator.

Meanwhile, Butt pleaded his innocence, claiming that the allegations are baseless and he had never given any statement against the senators.

“The allegations against me are baseless and it is possible that my statement was modified in some sections of the media,” Butt told the meeting.

The chairman, however said he will review his statement he gave about the senators again. “It’s my mistake that I came without homework, I will check my statements regarding the senators again.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 20th, 2010.

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