The Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination Committee on Sports has named Justice (r) Sahir Ali as the acting Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman and also the chief election commissioner tasked with holding fresh elections to appoint the new chief of the board.
On July 21 the double-bench of the Supreme Court, while disposing of different cases of the PCB, had ordered the prime minister as patron of the PCB to appoint an ad hoc chairman and an election commissioner to hold fresh elections inside 30 days.
The latest development has effectively put an end to the controversial term of Najam Sethi as the chief of the board, a period which saw the chairmanship change hands between him and Zaka Ashraf several times.
