LAHORE
\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday that the elections for the top post would be held next week \u2014 on June 27.
\nIn a statement, the PCB said that the election for the chairman\u2019s post would be held at its headquarters in Lahore.
\nThe election schedule will be issued after receiving nominations from the departments and service organisations. The commission\u2019s office has also written to the departments and service organisations to nominate their representatives.
\n\u201cThe election of the PCB Chair will be held in a fair and transparent manner whilst adopting due process and ensuring completion of all legal formalities,\u201d acting chairman and Election Commissioner Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana was quoted by the PCB.
\nThe PCB in the initial statement had announced that the polls will be held on June 28 but changed the date to June 27 after the government announced a public holiday on Wednesday.
\nThe date for the elections was announced after the sport\u2019s governing body in Pakistan shared that the Rana had formed the PCB\u2019s Board of Governors after the completion of the Management Committee\u2019s dissolution. The board was formed \u201cin accordance with Para 10 of the PCB Constitution 2014\u201d and in line with a letter sent by the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) regarding the management committee.
\nThe board members include PCB Patron Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s nominees Muhammad Zaka Ashraf and Mustafa Ramday, National Bank of Pakistan, State Bank of Pakistan, Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL), Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), president Larkana Region, president Dera Murad Jamali Region, president Bahawalpur Region and president Hyderabad Region.
\nThe PCB chairman\u2019s post was a bone of contention between the ruling coalition partners Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
\nThe PPP wants former PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf to return to the post, while the PML-N wanted now defunct Management Committee Chairman Najam Sethi to continue his job at the PCB.
\nPPP\u2019s stance on the matter is that since its minister heads the Inter-Provincial Coordination Division and PCB is related to the ministry, its chairman should be appointed by the party.
\nHowever, the path has now been cleared for PPP\u2019s nominee Ashraf to return as PCB chairman as Sethi pulled out of the race.
\nEarlier this week, Sethi announced he was not running for the post as he did not want to be a \u201cbone of contention\u201d between the partners in the coalition government.
\nCiting the atmosphere of uncertainty and instability as inconducive for the board, he said he had decided to step aside from the race for the PCB\u2019s chairmanship.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to be a bone of contention between Asif Zardari and Shehbaz Sharif,\u201d he tweeted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday that the elections for the top post would be held next week \u2014 on June 27. In a statement, the PCB said that the election for the chairman\u2019s post would be held at its headquarters in Lahore. The election schedule will be issued after receiving nominations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n