Three PCB officials are shown the door (18 August 1999)
Lahore, Aug 17: An official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) resigned on Tuesday evening while another proceeded on a two-month leave after having being informed by the ad hoc committee earlier in the day that their services were no longer
18-Aug-1999
18 August 1999
Three PCB officials are shown the door
The Dawn
Lahore, Aug 17: An official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
resigned on Tuesday evening while another proceeded on a two-month
leave after having being informed by the ad hoc committee earlier in
the day that their services were no longer required.
Col (retd) Rafi Nasim, advisor media relations and a former secretary
of the BCCP, resigned while Asad Aziz, manager administration,
proceeded on a two-month earned leave.
The third official informed of the decision is secretary Waqar Ahmad.
Efforts to contact him at his house went in vain.
However, in Karachi on Tuesday evening, ad hoc committee chairman
Mujeeb-ur-Rehman confirmed to Dawn that Waqar Ahmad, Col (retd) Rafi
Nasim and Asad Aziz had been informed in the morning that their
services were no longer required.
Mujeeb said the ad hoc committee's decision was verbally
communicated. He added that he would hand over the release letters to
them personally on Thursday.
It is believed that Rafi Nasim's resignation and Asad Aziz's decision
to proceed on long leave have come in the wake of ad hoc committee's
decision to get rid of them.
"I sincerely appreciate their services to the PCB but I also feel
that it is time that more aggressive and younger people are drafted
into the set-up," he said immediately after his arrival in city on a
day's visit.
Waqar Ahmad had been appointed secretary by former chief executive
Majid Khan in 1996. Asad Aziz, who was the manager of the Pakistan
team on the 1998 tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe, was drafted in
the cricket affairs by Majid Khan in 1997 - the same year Col (retd)
Rafi Nasim was appointed as media officer.
In his resignation, Col (retd) Rafi Nasim said: "I am resigning
because there is tension and only tension in the PCB. Under such
unfair circumstances I am unable to continue my job."
Asad Aziz said that he cannot resign since he was working in the PCB
on deputation. He said after availing the leave, he will report back
to his parent organization - Pakistan Railways.
Last week, the ad hoc committee fired cricket board's chief
accountant Faisal Zia.
Mujeeb said the jobs would be advertized in newspapers sometime next
week so that the fresh blood resumes office from Sept 1.
Source :: The Dawn (www.dawn.com)