Wasim Khan complains of not getting love in Pakistan:

Wasim Khan complains of not getting love in Pakistan:

I came to change the system but sometimes my salary was made an issue, sometimes my Urdu speaking style was objected to: PCB Chief Executive

It seems that Wasim Khan, the chief executive officer of the PCB, who came to Pakistan from the UK, has given up because of constant criticism in 18 months. He says that Pakistan has drawn him here in the love of cricket but in response I could not get that love from Pakistanis. In an interview with the American newspaper New York Times, he said that after accepting the post, I was personally attacked, I came to change the system but sometimes my salary was made an issue and sometimes my Urdu speaking style was objected to.

A group protested against me at the governing board meeting in Quetta, in which my appointment was to be approved. My wife Salma nervously told me on the phone that you are on every TV channel and it seems that you will have to lose your job.

My salary is being debated on a daily basis and an attempt is being made to give the impression that I have been appointed at the behest of an influential person.

One day Wasim Akram called me and said that you know what the recommendation means. Wasim Khan, 49, said helplessly that the job may not be for outsiders but for Pakistanis. People have pushed me back from the first day by not accepting.