ISLAMABAD, SEP 25 (DNA) — Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) hosted a lunch in honor of the newly elected Office Bearers of Traders Welfare Association, G-11 Markaz, Islamabad.
Naeem Akhtar Awan President, Farrukh Khan Secretary General, Nazim Ghori Senior Vice President, Ibrahim Noor & Qasim Shah Vice Presidents, Muhammad Shakeel Joint Secretary, Adnan Anwar Finance Secretary, Abid Hussain Press Secretary, Asim Abbasi Chairman, Chaudhry Aftab Gujjar Group Leaders and others attended the lunch.
Speaking on the occasion, Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President ICCI said that G-11 Markaz is one of the important commercial centers of the federal capital and called upon the CDA to focus on its better development that would facilitate the growth of trade activities. He said that ICCI is working actively with CDA to develop all markets on modern lines and assured that ICCI would work with CDA to develop G-11 Markaz as a model market.
Naeem Akhtar Awan, President and Farrukh Khan, Secretary General, Traders Welfare Association G-11 Markaz, Islamabad said that due to the inattention of CDA and MCI, their market is deprived of the basic facilities and traders are facing many problems.
They pointed out that G-11 Markaz needs a parking facility, carpeting of roads, repair of footpaths, installation of a filtration plant and construction of public toilets to facilitate the traders and stressed that the CDA should address these issues without further delay.
Khalid Iqbal Malik, Group Leader ICCI said that all markets are playing a key role in generating economic activity and emphasized that CDA should develop them on modern lines that would help boost trade activities and strengthen the local economy.
Zafar Bakhtawari, former President ICCI and Secretary General UBG Pakistan, said that the Office Bearers of Market Associations are playing an important role in solving the problems of the traders by sacrificing their business and family responsibilities, which is laudable. He said that Ahsan Bakhtawari is working hard to solve the issues of traders and assured that he would also work for the welfare of the traders of G-11 Markaz.
Ch. Aftab Gujjar, Group Leader G-11 Markaz thanked President ICCI for hosting a lunch in their honor. He said that ICCI is a big brother to them and they would work with it to address the key issues of traders.
Khalid Chaudhry, Ahmed Kamran Kamil, Imtiaz Abbasi, Ashfaq Chatta, Rao Faisal, Chaudhry Zafar Iqbal Gujjar, Irfan Chaudhry, Mian Ramzan, Nisar Mirza, Zulqarnain Abbasi, Sheikh Haroon, Amen Syal, Akmal Abbasi and others were also present on the occasion. — DNA
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