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| April 14, 2006 | Friday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 15, 1427 |
Shaharyar most travelled PCB supremo
KARACHI, April 13: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) ad hoc chairman Mr. Shaharyar M. Khan has become unquestionably the most travelled cricket supremo in the world considering the number of all expenses paid foreign junkets that he continues to undertake at a hectic pace.
The globe-trotting retired ex-diplomat was off to India on Wednesday for the third time in a space of one month to formalise the joint subcontinent bid for the 2011 World Cup.
A trip to the United States for a UN Award ceremony earlier could not materialize as the event was postponed because of which the chairman had to return from England.
By the end of June this year, Mr. Shaharyar would have undertaken more than half a dozen foreign trips, all of them fully paid and that figure would soar before the year ends.
In his two and half years stint as PCB chairman Mr.Shahyaryar has enjoyed nearly 30 trips abroad.
At this rate the PCB chief will certainly head the chart of Pakistani official undertaking foreign tours. No other previous Pakistan cricket chief in the past has undertaken so many overseas trips in such a short duration of time.
When Mr Shaharyar comes back from India, he will be heading for the United Arab Emirates for yet another all-expenses paid tour, it has been learnt.
No doubt everyone who is somebody in this country hopes one day to land the PCB chief’s job which is regarded as the most prized position in this country after those of the President and the Prime Minister.
Although the PCB officials refused to provide details of their chairman's list of foreign trips, the money spent on the tours and what compelled Mr Shaharyar to undertake these trips.
The Senate Standing Committee on Sports had taken note of one of Mr. Shaharyar's extended trips to England last year.
He was asked by the legislators what he had achieved to justify his six-week summer stay there.
The senators were not too convinced with the chairman's answers.
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