The Founder Group made a clean sweep by securing all the Corporate and Associate class seats in elections 2019-20 for the Management Committee of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP). According to details, Wednesday was the last date for receipt of nomination papers on vacant seats of Corporate and Associate class in North and South Zones for annual elections of the Associations. As no one else filed their nomination papers except candidates of the founders' group, all were declared elected unopposed for a term of two years i.e., 2019-21.
Those elected in Corporate class (North Zone) are Shahjahan Malik, Khalid Mahmood, Ahsan Saeed and Fahad Jahangir. Ashfaq Ali Khan was declared elected unopposed in Associate class under the leadership of Shahzad Ali Malik, Group leader of North Zone. Similarly, Mohammad Asif Polani, Subhan Khalil Malik, Faisal Masood Chaudhry, Gurmukh Das (Corporate Class) and Sheeraz Ahmad Sheikh (Associate class) were elected unopposed from the South Zone under the leadership of Abdur Rahim Janoo, group leader South Zone.
Sitting REAP Chairman Safder Hussain Mehkri, Senior Vice Chairman Ali Hussam Asghar, Shahzad Ali Malik and Pir Nazim Hussain Shah congratulated all the elected Managing Committee members and expressed the hope that they would continue serving for the strengthening of the national economy through enhanced rice exports.
Elections for the post of Chairman, Senior Vice Chairman and Vice-Chairman are due next month. The group also nominated Shahjahan Malik as the new chairman for the next year.
In a ceremony at the REAP headquarter, nominated chairman Shahjahan Malik said that no stone will be left unturned to take the rice exports from the current level of US 2 billion dollars to US 5 billion dollars in next five years.
For this purpose, he said that he along with his other colleagues will make efforts for upgrading the rice value chain in the country.
Outgoing Senior Vice Chairman Ali Hussam Asghar threw light on the efforts done by the current body for increasing rice exports and resolving the issues being faced by the rice exporters.
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