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style="font-size: larger;" | **Nasim Ashraf**
Organizations:	National Commission for Human Development National Commission for Human Development National Commission for Human Development is located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan is the first country to establish a public-private partnership to mobilize global resources for Human Development following the Monterrey Conference for the International Financing of Development, March 2002...	Pakistan Cricket Board Pakistan Cricket Board The Pakistan Cricket Board is a sporting organization that is responsible for governing all professional cricket including Test cricket and One Day International matches played in Pakistan...
Position:	Chairman	Chairman
Duration:	July 2002–Present	October 2006 – August 2008

Nasim Ashraf was the Chairman of the National Commission for Human Development

National Commission for Human Development

National Commission for Human Development is located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan is the first country to establish a public-private partnership to mobilize global resources for Human Development following the Monterrey Conference for the International Financing of Development, March 2002...

(NCHD) , Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

and a Minister of State. Prior to that, Ashraf served as the Team Leader for the President’s Task Force on Human Development in 2001. He was also appointed as Chairman PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board

Pakistan Cricket Board

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a sporting organization that is responsible for governing all professional cricket including Test cricket and One Day International matches played in Pakistan...

) by the President of Pakistan in October 2006. He resigned from the post of Pakistan Cricket Board on 18 August 2008 when President Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf , is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and led an administrative military government from October 1999 till August 2007. He ruled...

resigned from presidency on 18 August 2008.

Cricket career

Ashraf comes from a pioneering cricketing family of the NWFP. His maternal grandfather, Karim Baksh, played First-Class cricket in India and was one of the first elected members of the Pakistan Cricket Board in 1949. Ashraf had a very brief first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

career, spanning just 3 matches for the Peshawar Cricket Association in the 1969–70 Quaid-e-Azam Cricket Trophy where as a middle-order batsman. He scored 50 runs, with a best of 21 and a duck on debut.

He also played for the Pakistan Under 19 team which played against the English team in 1969. He was appointed as the Chairman PCB due to his vast management expertise. He was responsible for bringing about the Constitution of the Pakistan Cricket Board albeit after serious delays. The task was first entrusted to Shahrayar Khan who resigned and Nasim Ashraf finally succeeded in getting the Constitution restored after having it vetted to make it more corporate in nature. The new Constitution mandates a 14 member governing board with four representatives of the regional associations, one representative of the cricket playing organizations, two representatives of the players, and seven technocrats specializing in finance, law, media, and management. This new Constitution has significantly diluted the powers of the Chairman.

He was elected to the Chairmanship of the Asian Cricket Council in June 2008.

Submission and rejection of resignation

In March 2007, having been in the position for five months after he took over from Shaharyar Khan who stood down in October, Ashraf tendered his own resignation, accepting responsibility for the Pakistan team's first round exit from the 2007 Cricket World Cup

2007 Cricket World Cup

The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format...

in the West Indies at the hands of young Irish Cricket Team. But his resignation was subsequently rejected by President Pervez Musharraf who was asked him to "continue his duty to rebuild the Pakistan cricket team on modern and professional lines".

Other appointments and positions

Team Leader, President of Pakistan’s Human Development, 2001
Co-Chair Human Development Foundation of North America
Chairman, Oregon Medical Association Public Health Committee, 1993
Chairman, APPNA-SEHAT, 1989–1999
President, PAK-PAC, 1990–1991, 1993–94
President, Douglas County Medical Society, 1992
President, Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America, 1987–1998
Delegate, Oregon Medical Association, 1993–1996
Director, International Association of American Physicians, 1988
Member of Board, PAK-PAK, 1990–Present
Member of Board, Islamic Center, Eugene, Oregon, 1982–1987
Member of Board, Muslim Education Trust, Portland, Oregon
Member APPNA Advisory Task Force to Ministry of Health,Government of Pakistan, 1982

Awards and honors

Conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Sitara-i-Imtiaz
The Sitara-i-Imtiaz , is the third highest honour and civilian award in the State of Pakistan. It recognizes the individuals who made an "especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of Pakistan, world peace, cultural or other significant public endeavors"...

by President of Pakistan in 2006 for 30 years of distinguished public service.
UNESCO INTERNATIONAL AWARD for Literacy in 2006.
Awarded Gold Medal for the Most Outstanding Graduate of Khyber Medical College 1956–2004 on occasion of KMC’s Golden Jubilee.
Lifetime Achievement Award by Khyber Medical College Alumni Association of North America. 2004.
Gold Medal Award by Sohni Dharti 2004
Star Man of the Year Award by South Asia Publications (SAP) – 2003.
Recipient of American College of Physicians Linda Rosenthal Award 2002.
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award given by the American College of Physicians, 2002
Special Award from Fairfax County, Virginia, USA for promoting Asian American Harmony. 2000
Institute of Overseas Pakistani’s, Gold Medal Award, 1996
WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA, 1994
APPNA Gold Medal Award, 1993
APPNA Presidential Award, 1986
Khyber Medical College Dean’s Award for Service to Alma Mater, 1998
South Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen Award, 1992
Best Student of the School, St. Mary’s Cambridge School, Peshawar, 1965
Merit Scholarship Recipient, Peshawar Board of Education, Pakistan, 1967
Graduated with Honors Final M.B.B.S, 1972 (Fourth position in Class)

Professional societies

American Medical Association
Oregon Medical Association
Douglas County Medical Society
American College of Physicians
Renal Physicians Association & American Society of Hypertension
Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America
Islamic Medical Association
National Kidney Foundation
PG County Medical Society

Publications and lectures

July 26–29, 2002 – The 2002 Caux Dialogue “New Challenges for Muslims & Non-Muslims”
April 26, 1998 – Columbia University, New York, NY “Human Development Policy Options for Pakistan in the 21st Century”
March 7, 1998 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, “Role of Civil Society in Development”
December, 1997 – AWAZ TV Program, Washington, DC, Panelist “Current Political Crisis in Pakistan”
November, 1997 – AWAZ TV Program, Washington, DC, Annual Dinner chaired by Mr. Moeen Qureshi, former Prime Minister of Pakistan “Civic Responsibilities of Pakistani Americans”
September, 1997 – Wake Forest, NC, American Institute of Pakistan Studies: 50th Anniversary Celebrations of Pakistan. AIPS – Panel discussion on “Jinnah” along with Prof. Akbar S. Ahmed and Chief Justice (retd.) Nasim Hassan Khan.
July, 1997 – New York, NY, APPNA Annual Conference, “Human Development issues in Pakistan” Co-Chair of Symposium along with Mahbub ul Haq, former Finance Minister of Pakistan
March, 1997 – George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Symposium on Occasion of Pakistan’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations “Participants of Young Pakistani Americans in the Political Process in America”
October, 1996 – “Jinnah”, “What he means to Pakistani Americans.” Launch of the film Jinnah at Waldrof Astoria, New York, NY
July, 1996 – APPNA SEHAT, Primary Health Care Model and Role of Civil Society in Development in Pakistan Institute of Overseas Pakistanis, Islamabad
June, 1996 – Portland State University, Portland Oregon “Clash of Civilizations – Reality or Myth.” (MET Conference)
July, 1995 – Dallas, TX, APPNA Annual Convention, “Geo Political role of Pakistan in South Asia”
July 1994 – Istanbul, Turkey, International Conference on Health of IMA APPNA SEHAT Prime Health Care model for Developing Countries
October, 1992 – “APPNA SEHAT”, What expatriate Pakistanis owe Pakistan, London, APPUKI
May, 1992 – Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Oregon, “Islam, Judaism & Christianity, the Common Link.”

External links

NCHD Fundraiser in Boston

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