Lahore, Aug 3 (IANS) The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday said that it had included its staffers in the six cricket associations as a “transitory and administrative step” with the sole purpose of facilitating and expediting the registration process, adding that the staffers will resign as soon as the interim committees are constituted.
In a media statement, the PCB has also emphasised there was no bar in the PCB Constitution 2019 on its employees being founding members of a society for any cricket association to get it registered.
This clarification from the PCB came after a Dawn report stated that as many as 20 staff members of the cricket board have been registered as general body members of the Northern Cricket Association (NCA) — the only one registered out of the six associations — with the Registrar Societies and Joint Stock Companies, Islamabad, in nearly one year.
According to the list of general body members listed in NCA, PCB COO Salman Naseer and PCB CEO Wasim Khan have been registered as president and vice president of the association respectively.
The PCB, however, stated that the temporary administrative arrangement had been adopted as this was the most time-efficient, reliable and logistically convenient mechanism for the registration of all six cricket associations.
It reiterated no PCB staffer will be a member of the interim committees when these are put in place to run the day-to-day affairs of the cricket associations till the elected personnel take over.
“This is important because PCB’s vision is that these bodies will run their cricket independently with PCB overseeing as a regulatory body and assisting where required only,” said the board in a media release.
“Contrary to the misleading impression being created, the PCB vehemently denied it had allocated or released any funds to the cricket associations that, in turn, will be managed by the PCB staff.
“As such, the PCB believes it was unfair to malign, accuse and criticise it of breaching the PCB and Model Constitutions on selected, misleading and incomplete information. The PCB firmly believes in transparency and meritocracy, and will continue to display these with its actions and performances.”
The PCB further said that the next step is to constitute interim committees to:
a) adopt the model constitution, and
b) to run the affairs of the associations till the duly elected representatives take offices.
–IANS
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