{"id":13734,"date":"2023-01-30T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13734"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:13:14","slug":"stop-asking-for-favours-najam-sethi-urges-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/stop-asking-for-favours-najam-sethi-urges-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop asking for favours\u2019, Najam Sethi urges people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Stop asking for favours\u2019, Najam Sethi urges people. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.com.pk\/\">Pakistan Cricket Board<\/a> (PCB) Management Committee Chairman Najam Sethi has asked people to stop flooding him with requests to hire or promote people in the board.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter on Sunday, the former PCB chairman pleaded \u201crelatives, friends, acquaintances and persons in authority\u201d to not request such favours from him.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif \u2014 in a bid to revive the PCB\u2019s 2014 Constitution \u2014 named the 74-year-old as the management committee\u2019s chief. Resultantly, the dissolution of the board ended ex-PCB chairman Ramiz Raja\u2019s era.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-appoints-former-test-cricketer-haroon-rasheed-as-chief-selector.html\">PCB appoints former Test cricketer Haroon Rasheed as chief selector<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am flooded with \u201crequests\u201d from relatives, friends, acquaintances &amp; persons in authority to hire or promote people in PCB. Please, Please, everyone, understand PCB is not an employment agency,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Sethi added that he \u201ccannot, will not, follow bad past practices to erode its professional integrity\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am flooded with \u201crequests\u201d from relatives, friends, acquaintances &amp; persons in authority to hire or promote people in PCB. Please, Please, everyone, understand PCB is not an employment agency. I cannot, will not, follow bad past practices to erode its professional integrity.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Najam Sethi (@najamsethi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/najamsethi\/status\/1619711674575101953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since his takeover as the chief of the management committee, Sethi has also been receiving requests for passes of the Pakistan Super League and favours for any player\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n<p>The PCB management committee\u2019s chief, in a tweet, requested his friends and high-profile people &#8220;NOT to ask for free tickets\/passes to PSL matches starting next month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly that audits PCB has warned us to desist from this practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1) I am making a personal request to all friends and high-ups NOT to ask for free tickets\/passes to PSL matches starting next month. The Public Accounts Committee of National Assembly that audits PCB has warned us to desist from this practise!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Najam Sethi (@najamsethi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/najamsethi\/status\/1616367538933227520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sethi also requested people not to approach him for any player&#8217;s inclusion in the team or employment for an undeserving person.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8220;I am also requesting friends and high-ups not to do sifarish for [the] selection of any player or coach, etc, or to give employment or facilitation to any undeserving person. PCB competes with top professional organisations in the world and cannot afford to be inefficient.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Stop asking for favours\u2019, Najam Sethi urges people. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Management Committee Chairman Najam Sethi has asked people to stop flooding him with requests to hire or promote people in the board. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, the former PCB chairman pleaded \u201crelatives, friends, acquaintances and persons in authority\u201d to not request such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[7854,7525,459,7524,364,367],"class_list":["post-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-najam-sethi","tag-pac","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-public-accounts-committee","tag-pcb","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}