 "Alia Zafar, director, Pakistan Cricket Board")
The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed a female director for the first time.
Human resources executive Alia Zafar has been included among four new PCB directors. The others are finance executive Javed Kurieshi, economist Asim Wajid Jawad and corporate executive Arif Saeed.
Zafar and Jawad were appointed for two-year terms.
The PCB's new constitution makes it mandatory to include at least one woman among four independent directors on its board of governors.
“I welcome the newly-appointed independent members, especially Ms Alia Zafar, the first female independent member, which is a giant step forward in enhancing the PCB's governance structure,” PCB
