DGTO hailed for barring 15 fake trade bodies of Balouchistan in FPCCI election.

LAHORE -- The United Business Group (UBG) on Friday hailed the decision of Director General Trade Orgnisation (DGTO) barring 15 fake trade bodies of Balouchistan for casting votes in the upcoming annual election of the Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI).

Talking to newsmen here, UBG Chairman Iftikhar Ali Malik said that it would pave the way for free, fair, transparent and impartial annual election of the apex body of the country's chambers being held on December 30. He said the DGTO further ordered that Mrs Sonia and Mrs Mehreen Akhtar could not be nominees of Quetta Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the FPCCI election. He also vowed, 'We will also be successful in getting exclude another two bogus votes of Loralai Chamber of Commerce and Industry by submitting undeniable lawful documentary evidence.'

UBG Presidential candidate for FPCCI Khalid Tawab said that former FPCCI president Engineer Daroo Khan Achakzai and Haji Jamal Uddin Achakzai had challenged these 30 bogus votes on the grounds that these 15 trade bodies were not existing...

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