Mr. Zahid Maqbool has been elected as President, Mr. Karim Aziz Malik and Mr. Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari as Vice Presidents of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) for the year 2009-10. All the three candidates of Founder Group has been elected unopposed as no other candidate turned up to file papers against them.

Mr. Zahid Maqbool belongs to the traders’ community and represents M/s. Maqbool Enterprises Pakistan. Mr. Karim Aziz Malik is an industrialist representing M/s. Fazal Steel (Pvt) Limited while Mr. Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari represents M/s. D.Watson Chemists. With this election, the second phase of ICCI elections has now been completed.

The final results will be announced on September 30, 2009 in the Annual General Meeting of ICCI while the elected office bearers will take charge from 1st October 2009.

Speaking on the occasion, Zahid Maqbool said that business community has posed a great confidence in me by electing me as President of ICCI and I will leave no stone unturned to come up to their expectation for promotion of their interests.

Congratulating the newly elected office bearers, Mian Shaukat Masud, President, ICCI hoped that the new team will continue the good tradition of their predecessors to promote the interests of business community by doing policy advocacy with government for creating more business friendly environment in the country.

Khalid Javed, Founder Group Chairman said unopposed victory of Group’s nominees speaks volumes of its smart performance and expressed his optimism that the new office bearers will take ICCI to new heights by putting in their best efforts for the business community.

ICCI former President Munawar Mughal said that majority of ICCI members were small traders, which was clear proof of Founder Group’s pledge to protect their rights and added that there was no justification for any small traders’ chamber in Islamabad as ICCI was already giving small traders proper representation in decision making forums. 

Large number of businessmen on this occasion congratulated the newly elected office bearers of ICCI and hoped for better performance from them for safeguard of their interests.