Aamir A. Allahwala has been elected unopposed as Chairman Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts & Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM), while Syed Nabeel Hashmi elected as Vice Chairman. Election Commissioner Mohammad Saleem announced the official results of PAAPAM election 2020 in the annual general meeting (AGM) held here on Thursday night.
The other elected members of the Managing Committee are Mohammad Aslam Malik, Mohammad Ashraf, Sheikh Mehboob Ashraf, Mehmood Alam Sherani, Mohammad Siddique Misri, Shariq Sohail and Arshad Amin Awan.
Federal Secretary Industries Abdul Ghaffar Soomro, Chairman and CEO Engineering Development Board Aitezaz Niazi and out-going chairman Tariq Nazeer congratulated the new body. Federal Secretary Industries Abdul Ghaffar Soomro called upon the car manufacturers to bring down the prices of cars. He said that the Industries Ministry has prepared a strategy to increase import of engineering goods.
The new EDB Chairman Aitezaz Niazi said that the gold triangle of Gujranwala, Sialkot and Gujrat has the technical know-how, trained manpower and the potential to give a quantum jump to the diversified exports of Pakistani goods. PAAPAM office bearers said that local manufacturers were providing cheapest motor cycles and tractors in the region due to 90 percent indigenisation and transfer of technology. They said if the international manufacturers of cars transfer technology to the local vendors, then prices of locally made cars would also come down.
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