PM takes notice of PCB ban on Shoaib Akhtar
'Pakistan Times' Sports Desk

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has taken notice of five-year ban on fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar by the cricket board, sources said.

Prime Minister Gilani has taken notice of five-year ban on Shoaib and issued directives to Pakistan Cricket Board to revise the decision, the sources added.

It is recalled that the angry supporters of Shoaib Akhtar held a demonstration in Rawalpindi against the ban on the fast bowler on disciplinary grounds.

Meanwhile, Member National Assembly Hanif Abbasi along with four other MNAs has submitted at the National Assembly secretariat an adjournment motion against the ban imposed on Shoaib Akhtar from playing cricket for five years.

Talking with media after submitting the adjournment motion, PML (N) leader Hanif Abbasi said that he has raised questions in his request about the appointment of the PCB chairman, his perks, tenure of his office and the list of the PCB employees.

Hanif Abbasi on this occasion said that PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf has destroyed the career of Shoaib Akhtar on the basis of his personal enmity and this issue would be raised in the fullest way in the National Assembly.●