Director General (Trade Organisation) has barred Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) Zone-I (Punjab) Chairman Mujahid Khurshid from exercising his powers to convene and preside over any meeting or conduct negotiation with any forum on behalf of the association.
He has also been directed not to represent the association in any governmental or non-governmental meetings or events as PFMA Punjab Chairman.
These directions have been passed by the DG (TO) while deciding an application filed by the PFMA Vice-Chairman Punjab Mian Muhammad Riaz and others against Mujahid Khurshid.
This was disclosed by the PFMA Central Chairman Asim Ahmad Raza while addressing a press conference here on Friday night. He was accompanied by another former PFMA Chairman Habib-ur Rehman Leghari, whom he announced as an advisor of the association on this occasion.
Asim said that working relationship between PFMA Punjab Chairman Mujahid Khurshid and his executive committee members were non-existing for the last few months. Chairman was trying to settle the issues with the government departments or meeting Punjab minister food, secretary food and director food or without taking the executive committee members in to confidence.
He called only three meetings during last nine months and also included non-elected members in his delegation while meeting government functionaries. Mujahid also declined the request of the executive committee members to convene a meeting, after which these members approached DGTO and expressed their mistrust in the PFMA Punjab chairman.
DGTO called all these members and the PFMA Punjab chairman on July 21 where again 14 members expressed their mistrust in Mujahid Khurshid while two members could not attend this meeting due to illness but represented by their two representatives.
DGTO after hearing passed a directions barring Mujahid Khurshid from exercising the powers of Chairman and ordered formation of a five-member committee to exercise the powers of chairman. He said following this decision, PFMA Punjab has constituted a managing committee with Khawaja Muhammad Imran as its head.
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