Karachi News.Net Thursday 9th October, 2008 (IANS) Pakistan's new cricket chief Ijaz Butt wants to 'retain' friendly relations with India in a bid to keep the support of the country's powerful cricket board. India's importance for the new Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) boss could be gauged from the fact that the first foreign cricket officials whom Butt will be meeting later this month is Shashank Manohar, who took over as the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) last month. 'I have met the new BCCI president and I must say that he is a thorough gentleman,' Butt, a former Test cricketer, told IANS from his hometown Lahore Thursday. 'I will be meeting him in Dubai next week on the sidelines of an International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting and hopefully it is going to be a productive meeting,' he stressed....
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