by Chief selector Altaf resigns in protest
Sports Correspondent
Wednesday, March 04, 1998
LAHORE, March 3: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief selector
Salim Altaf has tendered resignation as a protest against by-
passing his committee while picking all-rounder Wasim Akram to
re-inforce the Pakistan team now touring South Africa.
Talking to Dawn, former Test pace man Salim Altaf said that he
had faxed his resignation to the PCB chief executive Majid Khan
on Tuesday.
Salim Altaf, who had assumed the job in July 1996 after the sixth
World Cup, said that induction of Wasim Akram in the team was the
decision of the newly-appointed PCB chairman Khalid Mahmood and
for not asking the selection committee to pick a re-inforcement,
he was forced to quit the job forthwith. He thought the decision
should also have been approved by the PCB executive council.
``According to the PCB constitution, the chairman can neither in-
terfere in the affairs of the selection committee nor the execu-
tive council. The way Mr Khalid Mahmood took a decision on his
own reflects that there is no constitution existing! He did not
even ask Wasim Akram to prove his fitness'', said Salim Altaf re-
gretfully.
Source: Dawn
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