Pakistan: Senate sport body defers issue of match-fixing (2 October 1998)

2 October 1998

Pakistan: Senate sport body defers issue of match-fixing

By Our Sports Reporter

ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: The issue of match-fixing and betting in Pakistan cricket was deferred for next session while the Senate Standing Sub-Committee on Sports took serious note of rift within the key officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

The Senate Standing Committee met under its chairman senator Justice (retd) Dr. Javed Iqbal at the committee hall on Thursday morning.

The committee was of the view that since the probe on the match fixing and betting controversy was incomplete therefore, discussion on the issue cannot be held until the final report was submitted.

The committee members, however, took serious note of the rift between the chairman PCB Khalid Mehmood and chief executive Majid Khan over almost all key issues. The committee advised the officials to resolve their differences as this phenomenon was affecting the morale and performance of the players as well as was counter productive for the game of cricket.

A Press release issued by the Senate Secretariat stated that both the chairman and the chief executive assured the Senate Standing Committee that they did not have any personal grudge or enmity with each other.

The two officials further added that allegations of differences or rift between them was unfounded. The two were of the view that difference of opinion on various matters while acting in service of the game could not be taken as "rift".

The Senate Standing Committee in another decision called upon the Ministry of Sports and the cricket board to encourage and patronise sports among women by providing due incentives to the half of the population.

The ministry of sports was asked to hold competitions for women in various games including cricket to bring women in the main stream of this vital sector of society.

Officials from the ministry of sports are learned to have agreed to provide necessary assistance in the form of infrastructure and equipment for women sports.

Source :: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)