Shah Khawar, an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Election Commissioner, has assumed the role of Chairman PCB, according to a notification from the Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Ministry on January 23, 2024.
According to Article 7(2) of the PCB Constitution, the Election Commissioner has been awarded the authority of Chairman PCB.
Notably, this makes Shah Khawar the fifth person to lead PCB in the last 14 months, succeeding Ramiz Raja, Najam Sethi, Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana, and Zaka Ashraf.
Khawar expressed gratitude to the PCB’s Patron, Mr. Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, stating, “I would like to thank the Patron of the PCB, Mr Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, for reposing trust in me. My primary responsibility will be to hold the election of Chairman PCB in a free and transparent manner at the earliest.”
Earlier, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, the PCB’s patron, officially named CM Punjab Mohsin Naqvi as the new representative of the Board of Governors (BoG), succeeding Zaka Ashraf, who recently resigned as Management Committee Chairman.
