NA sports committee asks PCB chief to ’set house in order’ or stepdown

October 8th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan National Assembly's Standing Committee on Sports chairman Jamshed Dasti has back tracked from his earlier statement in which he had accused the Pakistani cricket team of 'fixing' the ICC champions Trophy matches against Australia and New Zealand. Dasti, in an apparent volte-face, said he never accused the team of losing the matches intentionally, and that he has been 'misunderstood'.

October 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's National Assembly's Standing Committee on Sports Chairman Jamshed Ahmed Dasti has alleged that Pakistan lost the match against Australia in the ICC Champions Trophy on purpose, The News reports. Dasti has called on captain Younis Khan and coach Intikhab Alam and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt to explain the reason for the team's defeat in the elite eight-nation trophy.

October 6th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan's parliamentary committee on sports has accused the cricket team of throwing away its Pool A match against Australia to knock old rivals India out of the eight-nation event. The accusation came from Jamshed Dasti, the chief of National Assembly's Standing Committee on Sports.

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September 7th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) appointed Wasim Bari, a close friend of board president Ijaz Butt, as the new chief operating officer Monday. "The governing board of PCB through resolution by circulation, has appointed Wasim Bari as chief operating officer of PCB with immediate effect," a PCB statement said.

August 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Sports has asked President Asif Ali Zardari to sack all the officials responsible for the security lapse during the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore earlier this year. Expressing discontent over the sluggish pace of the probe regarding the March 3 ambush, the committee sought the intervention of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif into the issue, and the initiation of necessary disciplinary action against all those who are found guilty.

August 1st, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan National Assembly's Standing Committee on Sports has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt to step down, saying he has exceeded the legitimate age of retiring. During a recent hearing, committee chairman Jamshed Khan Dasti enquired Butt about his age and told him to retire saying he has exceeded the retirement age.

July 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt is headed for further trouble with the National Assembly's (NA) Standing Committee on Sports recommending issue of a bailable warrant against him. The committee, which is headed byJamshad Desti, said that a bailable warrant should be issued against Butt for his 'intentional absence' from a committee meeting.

July 15th, 2009 COLOMBO - Upset over his team's defeat in the second Test match against Sri Lanka, Pakistan captain Younis Khan has said he needs more time to 'rebuild' the team which has played "very little cricket over the last 18 months". Talking to media persons here, Khan said the players needed more time to adapt and blamed the lack of international exposure for the team's lackluster performance in both Test matches "Give this team some time, don't point fingers too early.

July 13th, 2009 KARACHI - Former Test spinner Iqbal Qasim was Monday installed as the new Pakistan chief cricket selector. Qasim, 55, will take over from another former Test cricketer Wasim Bari, who served as an interim chief selector following the resignation of Abdul Qadir as the chairman of the national selection committee last month because of differences with the Pakistan team management and senior board officials.

July 4th, 2009 KARACHI - Former Pakistan chief selector Abdul Qadir has been summoned by the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Sports to explain his sudden resignation from the post. The committee has asked Qadir to appear before it on July 14 to explain the reason behind resigning suddenly from the chief selector's chair.

July 4th, 2009 KARACHI - Former Pakistan chief selector Abdul Qadir is preparing ammunition for his July 14 meeting with a parliamentary committee and says he will candidly inform the Members of the National Assembly (MNA) about the irregularities in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Qadir, a former Pakistan Test leg-spinner, said that he would also try to meet President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the chief patron of the PCB, as he wants to inform him about all the problems in the board.

June 30th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tuesday disbanded the national senior and junior selection committees with immediate effect. The move was on the cards after former chief selector Abdul Qadir resigned midway during the World Twenty20 earlier this month citing differences with the PCB.

May 27th, 2009 MUMBAI - India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the three host nations of the 2011 cricket World Cup, will set-up a local organising committee in their respective countries, it was decided by the 2011 World Cup sub-committee here Wednesday. The meeting, which was held in the Cricket Centre at the Wankhede Stadium, was attended by International Cricket Council (ICC) officials, who briefed the committee on preparing an operational plan for the event.

May 25th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is planning to restrict the number of its staffers to less than 300 in a bid to cut down burgeoning costs. According to a report in the Jang -- Pakistan's mainstream Urdu daily, the board has decided to sack 250 of its employees by the end of this month.