{"id":256302,"date":"2022-04-21T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=256302"},"modified":"2022-04-21T04:01:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:01:09","slug":"govt-decides-to-sack-pcb-chairman-ramiz-raja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/govt-decides-to-sack-pcb-chairman-ramiz-raja\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt decides to sack PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> KARACHI<br \/>\nThe coalition government has decided to sack Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja, sources said Wednesday, who was appointed during ex-prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s tenure. PM Shahbaz, who is also the patron-in-chief of PCB, is expected to nominate two names for the Board of Governors for the next chairman of the board, sources said. According to sources, the PM is likely to nominate former PCB chief Najam Sethi and Shakil Sheikh.<br \/>\nHowever, earlier today, Raja had called PCB staffers to tell them that he has got a \u201cgreen signal\u201d from the government to continue working.<br \/>\n\u201cI have been told to continue working as PCB chairman,\u201d Raja told PCB staffers. \u201cWe should now focus on work rather than thinking about what is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI The coalition government has decided to sack Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja, sources said Wednesday, who was appointed during ex-prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s tenure. PM Shahbaz, who is also the patron-in-chief of PCB, is expected to nominate two names for the Board of Governors for the next chairman of the board, sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt decides to sack PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/govt-decides-to-sack-pcb-chairman-ramiz-raja\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt decides to sack PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KARACHI The coalition government has decided to sack Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja, sources said Wednesday, who was appointed during ex-prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s tenure. 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