APTMA interim chief accused of flouting court order

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Thursday plunged into severe internal differences as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region has accused the caretaker Chairman, Aamir Fayyaz for convening the Saturday (September 29, 2018) Annual General Meeting (AGM) in violation of clear cut order of the Peshawar High Court (PHC).
The AGM of the association has been convened despite the suspension of the APTMA election process for the year 2018-19 and as well as the operation of the executive committee of APTMA 2017-18 and 2018-19 by a divisional bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on the petition of Ahmad Kuli Khan Khattak and Afan Aziz of the APTMA KP region last week.
The APTMA KP Zone is complaining since last three years about the monopoly of a strong Punjab dominated lobby and disallowing rights to the Association's of small provinces. The APTMA KP Zone is not only lacking representation on Election Commission, rather also on the executive committee since last three consecutive years.
For blocking the APTMA AGM in general and particularly the item No.4 of the agenda pertaining to 'record and declaration of the results of the executive committee elections and the office-bearers of the APTMA for the Year 2018-19, Ahmad Kuli Khan Khattak and Afan Aziz have issued notices to Caretaker Chairman APTMA.Aamir Fayaz, members caretaker committee included Danish K Monno, Syed Ali Ahsan, Zahid Mazhar and Fawad Anwar.
Similarly, the executive committee APTMA 2017-18 and 2018-19, members of APTMA Election Commission 2018-19, all members mills and Secretary General APTMA Hamid Tufail Khan have been issued legal notice through Isaac Ali Qazi advocate.
In the legal notice, Isaac Ali Qazi advocate states that his clients Messars Ahmad Kuli Khan Khattak and Afan Aziz have instructed him to address to the respondents that his two clients having qualified in all respect filed nominations for contesting the election of executive committee 2018-19 against the two vacant seats of APTMA KP Zone: however, through a sheer malice on extremely frivolous and fabricated grounds, their nominations papers were rejected. As consequence the entire APTMA KP Zone has been disenfranchised and has lost their representation in APTMA Executive Committee, thus as a corollary, the APTMA has lost its federal character as a federal trade organization as envisage by its Memorandum and Articles of Association and required by the Trade Organization Act, 2013 and Trade Organization Rules, 2013.
The notice said that it is not for the first time but during the last four or five years, the APTMA KP Zone has been virtually disenfranchised by a series of adverse actions and non-actions. The representatives of the KP Zone is terming the disenfranchising KP Zone to losing of the status of federal level body by the APTMA.