KARACHI: Businessmen Panel (BMP) secretary general (Federal) Ahmad Jawad has opposed the move of the incumbent FPCCI president to shift chamber's head office to Islamabad as Karachi is a hub of economic activities and it is not advisable to table this proposal in the coming executive committee meeting of the FPCCI.

Talking to the media, Jawad said this is not the right time for this move because BMP didn't set this objective in its earlier election campaign, but importantly the business community faced numerous problems and it must be utmost responsibility of the FPCCI President to address their grievances and stood up with them in thick and thin.

He said majority trade bodies of the country voted us in the name of change so that we reshaped the affairs of the FPCCI but since January, FPCCI President was moving on opposite direction.

The voters reposed confidence on us and thought, that after wining the elections, businessmen panel through FPCCI have taken up their voice in order to resolve their long awaited issues before government departments, but till date such things didn't witnessed practically.

Even the budget proposal of the FPCCI led largely ignored before the government because we didn't lobby properly except one to two zoom online meetings with the Finance Ministry.

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