LAHORE – A PCB official has confirmed that Major Khawaja Najam had tendered his resignation as security manager of the Pakistan team, which was accepted by the chairman of the board with immediate effect.
Najam was brought in as security manager of the team earlier this year and accompanied the team on all tours since the T20 World Cup in the West Indies. “Due to the recent spate of controversies about involvement of players in spot-fixing and the Zulqarnain Haider episode, the PCB had already decided not to send Najam to New Zealand,” reports coming from the board said. Najam apparently was not pleased with this.
A PCB official, however, insisted that Najam had resigned due to personal reasons. The decision not to send a security manager with the team, interestingly, goes against the recent reforms and anti-corruption measures being implemented by the board.
