LHC issues stay order against PCB chairman elections

Summary sent to PM to decide fate of PCB chief Zaka Ashraf

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday suspended the notification of the Board of Governors of Pakistan Cricket Board and issued a stay order on the elections of the chairman, ARY News reported.

The LHC judge Justice Anwar Hussain issued a stay order and send notices to the federal government, PCB election commissioner, and others.

The petitioner maintained that Chief Election Commissioner Shahzad Farooq Rana made several changes to the list of the BoG which was finalised by the interim management committee on June 20.

The LHC order comes a day after Balochistan High Court (BHC) stopped the election of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman until further orders.

The election of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman was scheduled for June 28 (today) which was later postponed by PCB following BHC order.

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It is pertinent to mention here that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif nominated former chairman Muhammad Zaka Ashraf and Advocate Supreme Court Mustafa Ramday as members of the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

The notification, stated that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in the capacity of PCB patron-in-chief, has nominated Ashraf and Ramday as members of the PCB’s Board of Governors

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