PCB suspends coach after molestation allegations Karachi

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has suspended one among its nationwide degree coaches after a participant alleged he had molested her. The coach, Nadeem Iqbal of Multan area, was a widely known tempo bowler in his enjoying days and made his top notch debut for a similar staff as the good pacer Waqar Younis.

A PCB official confirmed that that they had initiated an inquiry into the matter to seek out out if Nadeem had breached his phrases of employment with the board. “Obviously we can’t carry out any criminal investigation that is for the police to do but our inquiry will find out if he was in breach of his terms of contract with us,” the official stated.

Nadeem, 50, who performed 80 first-class matches, was in his heyday thought of a greater bowler than even Waqar and in a single match he took seven wickets to skittle out the National Bank staff for 20 runs in Karachi. The sufferer in a grievance to the police claimed that she went for PCB ladies’s trials in Multan some years in the past when Nadeem was one of many coaches.

“He got close to me with promises of selecting me for the women’s team and also getting me employment on the board. But over time he kept on sexually molestating me and also involved his friends. He also had me video taped and later kept on blackmailing me,” she alleged in a video message. In 2014, 5 younger feminine cricketers had accused officers of the personal Multan Cricket Club of sexual harassment.

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The cricketers advised the media that the officers of the well-known cricket membership, which was affiliated to the district affiliation, demanded sexual favours in alternate for choice within the staff. Last 12 months Pakistan’s Test leg-spinner, Yasir Shah, was additionally accused off aiding a good friend in sexually assaulting a younger lady and later threatening her. The complainant later dropped the fees in opposition to Yasir however a case remains to be pending in a court docket in opposition to his good friend.