KARACHI, DEC 16: The Businessmen Panel, led by Tariq Saeed and S.M. Munir, has swept the election on the 21 seats for the managing committee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI).

“Our all the members of the Businessmen Panel have won,” Tariq Saeed told a press conference on Monday at the FPCCI.

Humayun Saeed took the highest number of votes of 49. Other winners include Hameed Akhtar Chadda (41 votes), Mohammad Ikhlaq Memon (42 votes), Mohammad Javed Chinnoy (47 votes), Syed Mohammad Asim Shah (41 votes), Amanullah Farouq (43 votes), Irfan Ahmed (46 votes), Arshad Alam (44 votes), Mohammad Yousuf Abdul Rahman (47 votes), Arshad R. Fazil (43 votes), Shaikh Anjum Rahmat (42 votes), Jamshed Qureishi (44 votes), Mohammad Yahya Polani (48 votes), Anjum Nisar (48 votes), Mohammad Danish Khan (42 votes), Ikramul Haq (38 votes), Mohammad Kamran Khan (43 votes), Haroon Rasheed (46 votes), Subhani Zia (41 votes) and Shaikh Mohammad Shabir (44 votes).

As many as 79 voters all over the country have cast their votes and 100 per cent turnout has been recorded, he said.

In the B-class associations ex-presidents of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) namely Zubair Motiwalla, Ahmed Sattar, Hanif Janoo and Shaukat Ahmed and former chief of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Shaikh Salim had faced the defeat.

Tariq Saeed and S.M. Munir, in a joint press conference, said that they will try to elect the FPCCI chief unanimously. “We are ready for the election in case the Businessmen Forum, led by Ilyas Bilour, insists,” they added.

It is now the turn of Sindh as far as FPCCI chief is concerned, and the elected members of the new management committee will take the final decision in this regard. Munawar Khan is the senior trade leader and the Businessmen Panel will talk to him, they said.

Earlier, leader of the Businessmen Forum, Ilyas Bilour claimed that the new president of the FPCCI and three vice president would be from his forum.