Businessmen Panel Nominates Alauddin Marri As FPCCI Presidential Candidate

The Businessmen Panel (BMP) for FPCCI on Thursday nominated former caretaker chief minister Balochistan, Alauddin Marri as its presidential candidate for the forthcoming polls of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), scheduled to be held on December 28 in Karachi.

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Nov, 2018 ) :The Businessmen Panel (BMP) for FPCCI on Thursday nominated former caretaker chief minister Balochistan, Alauddin Marri as its presidential candidate for the forthcoming polls of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), scheduled to be held on December 28 in Karachi.

BMP Chairman, Mian Anjum Nisar in an announcement before a large gathering of the business community said the panel has nominated a strong candidate for the top slot of the federation so that grievances of the Balochistan business community may be equally well taken care after winning the elections.

He said it was extremely important that FPCCI may project country's potential at series of internationally held trade, investment, and economic events.

"All over the world the responsibility of economic diplomacy and development has largely been shifted from governments to private sector institutions," said Mian Anjum Nisar.

He emphasised that apex trade bodies used to promote economic diplomacy and it has become a global trend to utilise the strength and capacity of private sector representative bodies for economic and political diplomacy.

BMP Presidential Candidate Alauddin Marri expressed his gratitude to the BMP members for reposing their confidence in him and promised that after winning the FPCCI elections his doors would remain open for all EC and GB members of the FPCCI as well as for all trade bodies.

"You will see a Naya FPCCI from January onwards as I have the experience to work as part of the government and am also fully cognisant of the problems of our industry," he said.

Marri pledged the Federation will be restructured on professional lines after taking into confidence all chambers of the country.

"I intend to soon visit the chambers across the country and put before them my agenda so that a collective approach be adopted and sanctity of the FPCCI is retained," said the BMP panel's presidential candidate.

The meeting was also addressed by Senior Vice Chairman of BMP, Mian Zahid Hussain, Chairman BMG of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce, Siraj Qasim Teli as well as Zakria Usman, Sheikh Aslam, Ahmad Jawad, Shahzeb Akram, Khurram Sayed, Naveed Jan Baloch, Senator Ghulam Ali, Riaz Khattak, Ghulam Farooq, Saqib Fayyaz Magoon, Sultan Chawla and others.