LAHORE: The United Business Group (UBG) on Saturday nominated Khalid Tawab from Karachi as its candidate for president and Rauf Mukhtar as senior vice president for annual election of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI).

This was stated by the President of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry Iftikhar Ali Malik, who is also the chairman of the group, while talking to the media here.

He said that a 20-member core committee held a marathon session with UBG patron-in-chief S M Muneer in the chair to finalize the candidates.

The UBG provincial level scrutiny committees submitted their recommendations to core committee for the award of tickets to the best candidates contesting elections for the slots of president, senior vice president and vice president. The candidates' names for vice presidents seats will be announced shortly after further deliberations and consultations with provincial and local leaders, he said.

He said that highly-educated young traders enjoying the highest degree of integrity would be awarded the tickets on merit with a consensus.

Under the rotation policy, the federation president would belong to Sindh province this year, he added.

He claimed that the UBG would make a clean sweep at the federation election.

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