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PCB has dismissed speculations of eradicating Imran Khan’s title from an enclosure.© AFP
The Pakistan Cricket Board has dismissed hypothesis that legendary cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s title could be faraway from an enclosure on the recently-renovated Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore owing to his incarceration on fees of corruption. Hypothesis was doing the rounds that PCB had eliminated the title of the 1992 World Cup-winning former captain from one of many enclosures on the stadium as a result of “current political situation”.
“No names have been changed or removed on enclosures,” an official of the PCB stated with out taking any names, including that names of all enclosures will stay as they had been earlier.
The Gaddafi stadium has been renovated for the Champions Trophy that begins on February 19.
The Imran Khan enclosure, which is among the VIP stands within the stadium, has been a everlasting fixture on the venue since 1992.
The previous Prime Minister is presently in Attock jail of Punjab province and has vehemently denied allegations of corruption, insisting that he’s a sufferer of political vendetta.
Nevertheless, a court docket lately convicted him and his spouse Bushra Bibi in a corruption case, sentencing them to 14 and 7 years respectively in jail.
Imran, who leads the Tehreek-e-Insaaf celebration, is presently in opposition to the ruling coalition authorities of Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Peoples Get together.
The Punjab province is ruled by a PML (N) authorities led by Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former premier, Nawaz Sharif.
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