The Secretary General of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has reacted to the reply, sent to the Director of Trade Organisations (DTO) by FPCCI Managing Committee member Sardar Ashraf Khan in response to DTO's letter relating to the FPCCI affairs. According to a press release issued here, the FPCCI Secretary General said that having lost the election of the FPCCI, he (Sardar Ashraf) had started levelling allegations on the apex body of the country's trade and industry.
He pointed out Sardar Ashraf had remained a member of the FPCCI Managing Committee for four consecutive years, but never raised any allegation about the rules, which were the same as they were during the tenure of the group to which Sardar Ashraf belonged.
Sardar Ashraf, the FPCCI Secretary General said, had filed almost two dozen cases with superior courts, but got no relief. This reflected the un-tenability of his baseless allegations, said the FPCCI Secretary General.
Regarding trade bodies, the FPCCI Secretary General said that during the last 10 years no association was formed and the existing associations were as old as 10 to 40 years. "These are the same trade bodies from which he had been contesting and getting elected as the member of FPCCI's Managing Committee from his group till December 2004.
"Now as his group has been routed, losing the office of President, seven Vice-Presidents and 90 percent seats of the Managing Committee, he has started levelling allegations of irregularities on the functioning of the FPCCI," the Secretary General said.