Summary PCB has said that Najam Sethi will stay on as chairman of the Board until the next hearing of IHC.
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Najam Sethi will stay on as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) until the next hearing of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday, the board s legal adviser said Monday.
Tafazzul Rizvi said a two-member appellate bench of the "issued status quo" after Sethi was suspended last week by another IHC judge, Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui.
Siddiqui also dissolved PCB s Interim Management Committee, which was chaired by Sethi, and ordered fresh elections for the chairman s post by the third week of November. He asked the PCB to release 2.5 million rupees ($23,300) for organizing the new election, but the appellate bench on Monday asked the PCB not to make the payment.
On Monday, government lawyer Asma Jehangir argued for 1-1/2 hours in front of the appellate bench against Sethi s suspension and said that the cricket board s working had been virtually paralyzed in the absence of a chairman.
She also said that the PCB had lost out on around $2 million since it s short tour of South Africa could not go ahead because of on-going case in the court, in addition to earning being hurt because it can t sign long-term sponsorship deals that included broadcasting rights.
The legal turmoil in the PCB began in June when Siddiqui suspended Zaka Ashraf as PCB chairman and termed his election for a four-year term as "polluted."
The government later appointed Sethi as chairman, but the IHC in July overruled several of his decisions, including the appointment of a chairman of the national selection committee.
