The Islamabad High Court has upheld the suspensionof Zaka Ashraf and ordered the Pakistan inter-provincial committee to name an interim PCB chairman to represent the board in the ICC annual conference in London later this month. The detailed order is awaited and is likely to be issued later today. The next hearing on the matter will be on June 19.
The court was responding to a petition filed by a former Rawalpindi Cricket Association official against the Pakistan board's elections that were held in May, through which Ashraf was elected to a four-year term as chairman. The court, in the inaugural hearing last month, suspended Ashraf from "exercising his power within his incumbency" due to what it called the "dubious" and "polluted" process to elect him.
Ashraf was elected in the first week of May, under the new PCB constitution that replaced the system of appointing the PCB chairman by the patron of the board, the president of Pakistan. It was the first election of a PCB chairman. The process was conducted without any prior announcement, the PCB revealing Ashraf's appointment through a press release.
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