Loud Thinking April 11, 2014 at 12:23PM

My letter published by the English daily “Dawn” on April 10, 2014.

‘Utterly disgraceful’

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2014-04-10 06:57:04

THIS is apropos your editorial ‘Utterly disgraceful’ ( April 3). The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, instead of squarely taking over the responsibilities of the Dhaka disaster, where the Pakistan team meekly surrendered in the last but most vital game against the West Indies team, has now announced an internal inquiry.

It is a known fact that internal inquiries are mostly a facade to cover up glaring deficiencies of senior people and to put the blame on certain scapegoats. Moreover, no internal inquiry either had the mandate or possesses the courage to fix the responsibility of the disaster on the top man of the organisation.

Under the circumstances, when the entire nation wants to know the raw facts about the debacle in Dhaka, the cricket-mad people of Pakistan expect and earnestly appeal to the prime minister and chief patron of the PCB, Nawaz Sharif, who always has a hand on the pulse of the nation and knows what people want, to immediately appoint an independent inquiry commission, headed by an honourable person like former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry or Justice Rana Bhagwandas, to find out (in a short time-bound inquiry) the causes of the cricket disaster, clearly fix the responsibilities of the failures on the persons concerned, suggest penalties/punishments and also remedial measures, for the future betterment of the game and the improved working of the PCB (which currently is a sinking ship), as a world-class professional organisation of Pakistan.

The nation hopes its cricket-loving prime minister will not be contented with and also not fall into the trap of the public relations exercise of the PCB chairman, who has announced a cosmetic and meaningless internal inquiry, with the obvious aim to hide the failures of the top PCB bosses.

S. Nayyaruddin Ahmad
Lahore

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