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Saturday, May 8, 2010

KCCA election: Dr Shah’s future bleak, Bukhari enjoys majority support



By Ubaid-ur-Rehman Awan

KARACHI: Karachi City Cricket Association 7th Zone KCCA Central Election will be held from May 21 at the National Stadium.

According to sources Sindh Minister for Sports and KCCA acting President Dr Muhammad Ali Shah will not be eligible to take part in the election as the rules of Karachi Cricket Board state that no MPA or MNA can take part in the elections held at district or provincial level.

Despite of that, KCCA has nominated Dr Shah for the post of president, Siraj-ul-Islam Bukhari as secretary and Mehdi Hassan as treasurer.

On the other side, Zone 5 Chairman Khalid Nafees will not take part in the up coming election. Instead of him, Ifthikhar Alzaman Khan who currently serves as the treasurer will contest election for the office of Chairman.

KCCA Zone 4 faces an interesting situation, presently in this Zone S M Adil is Chairman, Mussarat Hussain is the secretary and Ateeq Siddiqui is the treasurer; the upcoming election might see the ‘current regime’ up against each other. Sources suggest that the zonal chairman wants to maintain the current setup for the next term.

However, the treasurer, Ateeq Siddiqui doesn’t seem happy with this decision as he has his eyes set on the post of the secretary of the zone. Sources further revealed that if a deal between the chairman and Ateeq Siddiqui doesn’t work out, Ateeq may join hands with other clubs and erect a separate panel against the chairman.

Presently Zone 4 has 36 registered clubs which are all accepted by PCB and the majority of these clubs are not satisfied with the performance of Secretary Mussarat Hussain because of his lack of interest in the zone’s matters.

No major changes are expected in other zones of KCCA. In Zone 1 Umer Siddiqui is nominated for chairman, Aftab Ahmed Khan for secretary and Shahid Rashid for treasure.

In Zone 2 Prof Ejaz Farooqui will be nominated for the office of chairman, Jamil Ahmed for the post of secretary and Afzal Shari is for treasurer.
In Zone 3 Raziq Urf Musheer Rabbani will contest for the office of chairman, Abdul Hameed Khatri for secretary and Afzal Qureshi Khan is nominated for treasurer.
In Zone 6 present chairman Akram Khan, secretary Azam Khan and the treasurer Muhammad Saleem will contest for the same posts. KCCA Zone 7 office bearers may also remain the same.