KARACHI: Col. Rafi Nasim, a former Secretary of BCCP, now PCB, passed away on Dec 7 after a protracted illness. He was reported to be 90.
Actively involved in resumption of the Test series between Pakistan and India after 18 years in 1978, he served the cricket board from 1978 to 1988 under Lt Gen.(ret) K.M Azhar and later with Lt. Gen (retd) Safdar Butt - both as secretary and later as media relations officer.
Rafi was later appointed secretary of Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association (PVCA) and served for six years from 2006 to 2012.
As a writer who had a good eye on the game, Rafi never hesitated in putting his point of view across whenever possible. A self righteous man, he for reason known to him, never saw eye to eye with the Pakistan captain of the eighties and now country’s PM, Imran Khan which resulted in an ungainly incident during the third ODI of a five-match series against the West Indies in 1985-86 in Peshawar. I was a witness to that ugly incident.