Federation of Pakistan Chamber and Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has constituted a 17-member committee to help remove anomalies and address the genuine grievances of the traders in the federal budget.
FPCCI Chief Eng Daroo Khan Achakzai announced that Chairman United Business Group and veteran trader leader Iftikhar Ali Malik will head the committee and all leading trade leaders across the country have been given representation in the committee which includes FPCCI Zonal Chairman Punjab Rauf Mukhtar, LCCI President Almas Hyder, Waheed Ahmad, Karim Khalil, Ijaz Abbasi, Ilyas Bilour, Zahid Shinwari, Haji Muhammad Afzal, Zubair Tufail, Khalid Tawab, Mazhar A Nasir, Bashir Jan Muhammad, Arif Habib, Noor Ahmad Khan, Gohar Ejaz and Banish Khan.
Iftikhar Ali Malik asked all chambers, affiliated traders associations and trade bodies throughout the country to send their grievances immediately within three days direct to him or federation house or respective provincial offices of the federal for timely taking up their issues with concerned higher authorities for rederessal.
He said that Prime Minister Advisor on Finance, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Advisor on Commerce, Abdul Razzak Dawood, Chairman Finance Committee of the National Assembly, Asad Omar and Governor Punjab Muhammad Sarwar Chaudhary have fully assured him of taking concrete steps for boosting economic activities in the county by taking stakeholders into confidence. He said that committee after compiling anomalies and grievances data will meet the all relevant federal ministers and advisors for finding out solution to restore the confidence of the local and foreign investors. He said that he will review and hold deliberations with the members before taking up these cases with the Budget Anomaly Committee set up by the government.